banana nose

plural banana noses · alternative banana-nose

1. idiomaticA large, unusually long nose.

   The man with the banana nose was on my right.

   2003, Lawrence Gordon Knudsen, The Clock Struck Terror: A Professor Bates Novel, →ISBN, page 113

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   Shortly before giving an exam, Throckmorton puts on a pair of Elmo slippers, a banana nose and a funny hat.

   2004 September 14, Valerie Strauss, “Can Exam Anxiety Be Overcome? With Effort”, in Washington Post, retrieved 10 Feb 2018

   With his banana nose, hunched shoulders and hustling ways, Matthau's Buttermaker had an unmistakably Nixonian cast.

   2005 July 22, Manohla Dargis, “Film Review: The Kids Are All Right; the Coach Has Problems”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Feb 2018

2. capitalizedidiomaticmildlyoffensivesometimesA person having such a nose.

   Sometimes the kids at school call me Banana Split, and when my father heard the name, he said, "You mean Banana Nose. You always had a big nose."

   1995, Natalie Goldberg, Banana Rose: A Novel (2011 Open Road Media edition), ch. 2 (Google preview)

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   But 30 years ago, it was a pleasure to relax at the track—win or lose. The only remark I ever heard made to a jockey by a fan in those days was a friendly "Hey, banana nose" addressed to the great Eddie Arcaro.

   1985 June 30, Robert N. Strauss, “Letters: Ugly Fans at Track”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Feb 2018

   “How many, young Millar?” asked Flanders, a giant with tight clothes, lambchop sideburns, a ruddy complexion and an enormous nose that defied gravity. The kids called him Banana Nose.

   2003, Sam Millar, chapter 3, in On the Brinks, →ISBN