Meanings
alternative hooknosed
- 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 882 more examples
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 161As 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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