BLUENOSE


Meaning of BLUENOSE in English

■ noun informal

1》 US a priggish or puritanical person.

2》 ( Bluenose ) Canadian a person from Nova Scotia.

Derivatives

~d adjective

Origin

prob. with ref. to blue law .

Concise Oxford English vocab.      Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка.