Crossword-Solution: BLUENOSES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Holier-than-thou types | 1 answer |
| Strait-laced ones | 1 answer |
| Puritanical ones. | 2 answers |
| Puritans | 2 answers |
| Killjoys. | 4 answers |
| Prigs | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACZEEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BLUENOSES (5)
Yankees, Britishers, and Bluenoses (as Nova Scotian craft were called) did most of the oversea transportation.
The "powers that were" found a shrewd defender in Haliburton, who tried to teach his fellow Bluenoses through the homely wit of "Sam Slick" that they should leave governing to those who had the training, the capacity, and the leisure it required.
But the old New England strain of blood no longer predominates, and Portuguese, Scandinavians, and Nova Scotia "Bluenoses" bunk with the lads of Gloucester stock.
One more cheep out of you, my friend, and I'll go up to my own logging-camp, return here with a crew of bluenoses and wild Irish and run your wops, bohunks, and cholos out of the county.
When I overtook him, the Clockmaker said, "this old Yankee horse, you see, understands our word 'go ahead' better nor these Bluenoses." "What is it," he continued, "what is it that 'fetters' the heels of a young country, and hangs like 'a poke' around its neck? What retards the cultivation of its soil, and the improvement of its fisheries? The high price of labour, I guess.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1962–2010).