HOOK-NOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hook-nosed mean? 

• HOOK-NOSED (adjective)
  The adjective HOOK-NOSED has 1 sense:

1. having an aquiline nose

  Familiarity information: HOOK-NOSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOK-NOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an aquiline nose

Similar:

nosed (having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind)

 Context examples 

The same curious accident happened to him in the rooms of the Indian—a silent, little, hook-nosed fellow, who eyed us askance, and was obviously glad when Holmes’s architectural studies had come to an end.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)