posy sniffer

9.9

A person who likes flowers and often smells them

noun

: aficionado a las flores

Because he was a devoted posy sniffer, his house overflowed with fragrant blossoms.

Examples

The posy sniffer in our group can identify any flower.
Sarah proudly calls herself a posy sniffer and is always surrounded by bouquets.
She is a true posy sniffer!
My grandmother is an avid posy sniffer.
As a passionate posy sniffer, he spends every weekend at the botanical gardens.
She is known as a posy sniffer because she loves giving flowers as gifts.
The posy sniffer in our neighborhood often shares gardening tips with others.

Surface Forms

posy sniffer singular

posy sniffers plural

Morphology

posy + sniffer

The meaning is directly built from 'posy' (a small bouquet) plus 'sniffer' (one who sniffs), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'someone who sniffs/enjoys/identifies flowers.' This is a literal, compositional agent+object formation following productive English word-formation, making it transparent even if 'posy' itself is relatively low-frequency.

Etymology

Posy sniffer may come from the simple image of someone holding a posy, a small bunch of flowers, up to their nose and sniffing it as a sniffer. So a posy sniffer today means someone who 'enjoys flowers' and their smell.