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Adjective: bluenosed
Usage: US, informal
  1. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my bluenosed Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, uptight [informal]

See also: proper