hook-nosed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The mother, a hard, hook-nosed creature, was doing up a bundle of overalls she had but finished at the sewing-machine."
- "As 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."