nose
n 1 pua speak through the ~semea puani. bite/snap somebody's ~ off jibu vikali. count/ tell ~s hesabu watu. cut off one's ~ to spite one's face kata pua uunge wajihi, jiumiza ili kulipa kisasi. follow one's ~ enda mbele moja kwa moja. keep a person's ~ to the grindstone fanyisha kazi bila kupumzika. look down one's ~at somebody dharau; tendea ufidhuli. pay through the ~ lipa gharama kubwa sana. poke/stick one's ~ into ingilia. turn one's ~ up at dharau. as plain as the ~ on one's face, dhahiri. (right) under his very ~ palepale; mbele yake. 2 hisi za kunusa. 3 kitu chenye umbo kama pua, kitu kilicho mbele kabisa. 4 (compounds) nose-bag n mfuko wa chakula cha farasi. nose-band n sehemu ya hatamu (ipitayo juu ya pua). nose-bleed n mnoga, muhina; kutokwa na muhina. ~-cone n kichwa cha roketi. nose-dive (of aircraft) n mteremko wa kutanguliza kichwa. vi anguka kwa mteremko mkali huku kichwa kimetazama chini. ~-flute n zumari ya pua. ~ gay n fungu la maua.~ -rag n (sl) leso ya mfukoni. nose-ring n hazama. ~-wheel n gurudumu la mbele la ndege. nosed adj -enye pua long ~d -enye pua ndefu short ~d -enye pua kipande. vt,vi 1 sogea mbele polepole. 2 ~ something out vumbua/gundua (kwa kunusa). 3 ~ about (for something) nusa nusa; (fig) dadisi. ~ into something dukiza, ingilia kati. ~y;nosy adj -dadisi. n (sl) mdadisi. ~ parker n mdadisi.