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hooknoses

hooknoses is the plural of hooknose.

Meaning of hooknose

Noun

hooknose (plural hooknoses)

  1. An aquiline nose.
  2. Someone with such a nose; stereotypically a Jew. See Jewish nose.
  3. A fish, the armed bullhead (Agonus cataphractus).

Questions about hooknoses

What is hooknoses the plural of?
Hooknoses is the plural of hooknose.

Words near hooknoses in the dictionary

  1. hookmaking
  2. hookman
  3. hookmen
  4. hooknose
  5. hooknosed
  6. hooknoses
  7. hooks
  8. hooks above
  9. hooks and eyes
  10. hooks in
  11. hooks it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hooknoses (page history and authors); hooknose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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