posy sniffer

English

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Noun

posy sniffer (plural posy sniffers)

  1. (slang, derogatory) An effeminate man.
    • 1988, Stories - Volumes 20-30, page 24:
      Buster, the boys say you are a posy sniffer and they'll take the leggin's to you if they catch you wearing dresses.
    • 1995, Mike Blakely, Shortgrass Song, →ISBN, page 214:
      That ain't gonna sound i very good for a hero to be a posy sniffer.
  2. (slang, derogatory) An environmental activist.
    • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 140:
      Are all the tree huggers and posy sniffers too busy saving the whales to join hands and lie down in front of even one cement truck?
    • 2006, Robert James Wolfe, Playing with Fish and Other Lessons from the North, →ISBN, page 33:
      "They're posy sniffers," was the derogatory assessment by one Healy resident just a few road miles to the north.
    • 2008, Dan O'Neill, A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River, →ISBN:
      He could work himself into a great froth over the environmentalists, or “posy sniffers,” as he called them.

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