hook-nosed

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English

Adjective

hook-nosed (comparative more hook-nosed, superlative most hook-nosed)

  1. Having a hooked or curved nose.
    • 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:
      The mother, a hard, hook-nosed creature, was doing up a bundle of overalls she had but finished at the sewing-machine.