Home › Words › N › nosefulnosefulnoseful means as much (of a scent etc.) as can be taken into one's nose; a sniff.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, noseful ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom nose + -ful.nounAs much (of a scent etc.) as can be taken into one's nose; a sniff.e.g.“At last he did what I wanted: I stood so close I could snuff up nosefuls of his musty smell, and he snipped the curls from my head one by one.” — 2002, Kate Grenville, Joan makes history:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).