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hook-nosed

hook-nosed adjective: having a hooked or curved nose.

Adjective

hook-nosed (not comparable)

  1. Having a hooked or curved nose.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of hook-nosed

alternative formhooknosed

Questions about hook-nosed

What does hook-nosed mean?
Hook-nosed means having a hooked or curved nose.
What part of speech is hook-nosed?
Hook-nosed is an adjective.

Words near hook-nosed in the dictionary

  1. hook-and-pile fastener
  2. hook-bill
  3. hook-eared
  4. hook-eared sculpin
  5. hook-eared sculpins
  6. hook-nosed
  7. hook-up
  8. hook-upper
  9. hook-uppers
  10. hook-ups
  11. hooka

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