nose-ringed
English
Alternative forms
- noseringed
Etymology
From nose ring + -ed.
Adjective
nose-ringed (not comparable)
- Wearing a nose ring.
- 1825, Donald Campbell, An Essay on the Authenticity of Ossian’s Poems, Ayr: […] M‘Cormick & Carnie, page 19:
- We shall grant all this, but it must still be admitted, that it were totally inconsistent with the elegant genius and chaste taste of Tacitus to make a tatooed, nose-ringed, naked Hottentot of a chief expatiate, in a stream of eloquence which has never been surpassed, on the sacred beauty of freedom, the anathematised deformity of slavery, and to conjure a band of untamed barbarians, rude of intellect and savage of mind, by the glory of their ancestors to protect their country and to vindicate its rights.
- 1835, “The Cavaliers of Virginia; or, The Recluse of Jamestown”, in The New-England Magazine, volume VIII, Boston, Mass.: E. R. Broaders, […]. Eastburn’s Press, page 325:
- She is decidedly better than the nose-ringed Queen Aliquippa of Dr. McHenry, and not much worse than the squaws in Mr. Cooper’s ‘Prairie.’
- 2006, Jim Geraghty, “How Did Each Party React to 9/11?”, in Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 119:
- And perhaps the Web postings noticed by Beinart were the tasteless snarky bile of nose-ringed teenagers still working out their Freudian issues.
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