The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive. (noun)
Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as neighbor, window, happiness, or negotiation. (noun)
Examples of word noun
A noun signifying many, is called a _collective noun_, or _noun of multitude_; as, the _people_, the _army_.
Surely, in this instance, the plural noun "freshes" is not formed from any such singular noun as "_fresh_," but directly from the adjective, which latter does not seem to have been ever used as a singular _noun_.
Find them, and give the reason.] [Footnote 2: When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an adjective, a favorite order of words is _adjective, genitive, noun_.] [Footnote 3: A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition and its object.] *****
Is the adjective skeevy somehow related to the slang noun for underwear, skivvies?
That quality of crawling stealthily is the basis of the slang noun creep.