bluenose

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Our skipper was a reg'lar old bluenose, and some Tartar, I don't think!

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  1. noun A puritanical person: "Bluenoses demand restraint against the porn and violence that are the staple of popular culture” (Charles Krauthammer).
  2. noun Canadian A native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia.

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  • Our local cop must be an "on paper" policeman as opposed to a plastic or a real one. bluenose, witney says ...
  • All of them are fun of a raunchy, gamy, the-hell-with-proprieties kind, which is exactly what Depression audiences were looking for and what the Catholic Church's bluenose Legion of Decency didn't want them to see -- but which, of course, they did and do and always will, despite the campaigns of daffy prelates and perverse Code-fanciers like the madly censorious and madly gay Cardinal Francis Spellman.
  • - Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Bad Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Update: Cooler heads appear to have prevailed, and Loren reports that Tweetie 1.3 has cleared the App Store bluenose barrier and should be showing up later tonight. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • The only party to support Metiria's amendment was the Maori Party, and they deserve credit for that. bluenose, which has woefully inadequate information on fish stocks. —  frogblog
  • As long as the bigoted, bluenose eejits get gubbed every week it's like Christmas time for the rest of Scotland. ' —  TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
 

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