nose-swelling

[prettygoodword]

nose-swelling - "To make a person's nose swell, to make him jealous of a rival. —James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855"


I confess, that sense would never have occurred to me. That's simply not the anatomy I associate with jealousy.

---L.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Have still not found a rational explanation for E. E. Smith's "You talk like a man with a paper nose" by the way. I fear I will go to the grave not knowing.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

What are the candidate irrational ones?

---L.