posy-sniffer

English

Noun

posy-sniffer (plural posy-sniffers)

1. Alternative form of posy sniffer
   1. Effeminate man
      • 2017, Max Edelman, Sex Swinging Foursome for the H, →ISBN:

        "I... just... can't... stand... having some... goddamned... posy-sniffer of a main-line Philadelphia closet queen... who inherited his fucking money... and doesn't have any fucking idea of what goes into making it... trying"--and here her teeth came together and stayed there, and the expression on her face went grim and bitter again--"to tell me how to run my own fucking business."

   2. Environmentalist
      • 1992, Elizabeth Knox, Treasure, →ISBN, page 116:

        Carl glared at the Greenpeace stall a few metres further along the mall. 'I wish we hadn't set up so close to the posy-sniffers.'

      • 2010, Joe Barfield, Moon Shadow, →ISBN:

        Beau pointed to the environmentalists and said, “Those posy-sniffers will never change— until they have no gas for their cars.”