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Good evening, and unless I'm mistaken, pleased to meet you! I'm Nosegay. So what's your name?
― Nosegay, Animal Crossing


Nosegay (アリンコ, Arinko?) is a normal anteater villager who has only appeared in the earlier games in the Animal Crossing series.

Appearance[]

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Nosegay in Animal Forest

Nosegay is a fairly solemn-looking, reddish-brown anteater with a lighter brown face and paws. She has white arms, possible to give her the illusion of wearing a long-sleeved shirt. She has small, half-closed black eyes, with blue eyeshadow and a single eyelash on each. Her tail is fluffy and reddish-brown, and the insides of her ears are pink. Her initial shirt is the Loud Bloom Shirt, which may reference her name.

Personality

Below is a brief description of the normal personality. For more information, click here.

Nosegay has a normal personality, and frequently acts kind towards the player. Normal villagers generally get along well with lazy, peppy, smug, snooty, and other normal villagers. Nosegay may conflict with cranky and sisterly villagers. As a normal villager, Nosegay will usually wake up at 6:00 am and is easier to befriend than most. Both normal and peppy villagers reference an unseen friend known as Moppina.

House[]

In Nosegay's house, she has no specific theme. She has many paintings and two gyroids, the mini tootoid and the mega lullaboid. She also has a red econo-chair. The wallpaper in her home is the melon wall, and the flooring is the shanty flooring. There is no stereo in her starting home, but if she obtains one, The K. Funk will play on it.

AF Nosegay House GC Nosegay House
Animal Forest (interior) Animal Crossing (interior)

e-Card[]

e-Card [1]
Letter
Ac A271 Screen Shot
Back
Ac A271 bk
#271 Nosegay
Gender Female
Type Anteater
Star sign Aquarius
Clothes Loud bloom shirt
Petphrase Hoooonnk
Password vx9R6zl#ydL4BW
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Profile Nosegay has a nose for finding ants. But instead of using that nose, she's started leaving candy and rotten radishes to attract and trap them. Sounds like she also has a nose for trying new things!
Ac A271
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270 Alfonso #271 Nosegay 272 Savannah
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Trivia[]

  • Different meanings can be found in Nosegay's international names, often relating to plants or noses or ants in some way.
    • Her English name, Nosegay, is the modern spelling of the Middle English word nōsegai. An equivalent of nose + gay (as in "happy; joyful; lively"), a nosegay is a small, fragrant bouquet, often worn or carried as an accessory. Gay itself is an English unisex name that has since fallen from popular use in present times.
    • Her Japanese name アリンコ (Arinko?) might be a portmanteau of Japanese words (アリ) (ari "ant"?) or (アリ)(クイ) (arikui "anteater"?) and the feminine name リンコ (Rinko?) spelled in katakana.
    • Her French name, Tamara, is a variant of the feminine Hebrew name Tamar (תָּמָר‎ tamár, literally "date palm; date fruit; (Phoenix dactylifera)").
    • Her Spanish name, Marisa, is a contraction of the names Maria and Luisa, the Spanish equivalents to English Mary (from Latin maris "of the sea") and Louise (Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz "loud, famous" + *wīgą "battle").
    • Her German name, Hortense, is a French feminine given name from Latin hortensia, another name for flowers of the genus Hydrangea. Hortensia, a neuter plural of hortensis, derives from the word hortus, meaning "garden".
    • Her Italian name, Narica, is likely a portmanteau of the feminine given name Marica (origin uncertain; name of a Roman nymph who birthed Latinus, the son of the faun chieftain Faunus) and the feminine noun narice "nostril" (from L. nāris, itself from nāsus). It is also the species nomenclature of the white-nosed coati (Nausa narica), a mammal from a taxonomic order entirely separate from anteaters.
    • Her Chinese name, Xiǎo Yǐ (小蚁, from localization by iQue) literally means "little ant", which is a likely reference to the diet of real anteaters. This can be inferred by inspecting the Han characters of her name:
      • xiǎo is a prefix that general means "small; tiny; little", but can also mean "brief; for a short time", "young" or "youngest".
      • can be shorthand for "ant", but may also to describe something as "humble; inconsiderable" or "black", or to refer to foam or sediment in wine. It can also be a surname.
  • Like nearly all anteaters, Nosegay's catchphrase relates to her nose.
  • According to her e-Card, Nosegay likes to leave candy and rotten radishes around to attract ants so she can eat them.
  • Her French and Italian catchphrases are the same as her English one - "hoooonk".

In other languages[]

Nosegay
Language Name Translation
Japan Japanese アリンコ Arinko -
France French Tamara -
Spain Spanish Marisa -
Germany German Hortense -
Italy Italian Narica -
China Chinese 小蚁 Xiǎo yǐ -


References[]

  1. Species navigation icons from Nookipedia by Sunmarsh, CC BY-SA 3.0
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