nose-ringed

English

Alternative forms

• noseringed

Etymology

From nose ring +‎ -ed.

Adjective

nose-ringed (not comparable)

1. 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.