powder one's nose
English
Verb
powder one's nose (third-person singular simple present powders one's nose, present participle powdering one's nose, simple past and past participle powdered one's nose)
- (euphemistic, typically of women) To visit a lavatory to use a toilet, reapply makeup, (when used of a group of women) engage in private conversation, etc.
- I'll be right back. I just have to powder my nose.
- C'mon girls; let's go powder our noses.
- 1996, Deirdre Purcell, Roses After Rain, page 335:
- "...Where's the ladies' in this joint? I've to powder me nose."
- (slang) To snort cocaine or other types of drugs via one's nose.
- The cokehead couldn't go more than a couple hours without powdering his nose.
- 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman):
- Well I'll tell you what, I'll go to the bathroom and powder my nose, while you sit here and think of something to say.
See also
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2024) “powder one's nose v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Eric Partridge (2005) “powder your nose”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1537.
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