hook-nosed

1. 1.

   having an aquiline nose

   Similarnosed

Questions about hook-nosed

What does hook-nosed mean?

hook-nosed means "having an aquiline nose".

How many syllables are in hook-nosed?

hook-nosed has 2 syllables and divides as hook--nosed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hook-nosed a common word?

hook-nosed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.