hook-nosed

adjective

Having a hooked or curved nose.

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Meanings

adjectivehook-nosed (not comparable)

alternative hooknosed

  1. not comparableHaving a hooked or curved nose.

    The mother, a hard, hook-nosed creature, was doing up a bundle of overalls she had but finished at the sewing-machine.

    1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 88
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    She is a large, oleaginous, black-haired, hook-nosed woman, who invariably wears ear-rings, and perfumes a room with the odor of fried fish.

    1857, Thomas Butler Gunn, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, page 161

    As the conversation got around to what he thought of the United States, he said that it was “a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards.

    2007, Mark Borders, The Self-Improvement of Chess, page 158

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivehaving an aquiline nose

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