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Bluenose

Bluenose is an informal term for someone priggish or puritanical. Such a person shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety, especially on matters in which a prig has the ability to show superior knowledge to those who do not know the so called protocols, rituals, et al in question for certain occasions. A person from Nova Scotia is also informally called a Bluenose.

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