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• noov — n, adj British (a person who is) nouveau riche. A dis missive term employed by upper class and public school speakers and pseudo intellectuals. Etonian school boys applied the term to Harrovians in the late 1980s …   Contemporary slang

• Maisonneuve amputation fracture sign urethrotome — Mai·son·neuve amputation, fracture, sign, urethrotome (ma″zo noovґ) [Jules Germain Franзois Maisonneuve, French surgeon, 1809–1897] see under amputation, fracture, sign, and urethrotome …   Medical dictionary

• nouve — n, adj British alternative renderings of noov, noovo …   Contemporary slang

• nouveau — n, adj British alternative renderings of noov, noovo …   Contemporary slang