aduncadj.

Brit.

/əˈdʌŋk/, U.S.

/əˈdəŋk/

Forms: 1600s adunck, 1600s 1800s– adunc, 1600s–1800s adunque.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin aduncus.

Etymology: < classical Latin aduncus hooked, curved < ad- ad- prefix + uncus hooked, crooked, curved (see uncous adj.). Compare Italian adunco (a1374).

Now rare.

Esp. of the nose or beak: hooked; bent inward.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > like a hook

hookedc1000

hooky1552

hookish1598

adunc1626

adunct1635

aduncous1656

uncous1658

aduncate1661

hamous1665

hooking1704

hamose1709

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §238 Parrets have an adunque Bill.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 72 Her face was flat, and very much like an Owles, if not more Oulebie, and her Nose adunck like an overgrown Eagles beake.

1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 297 The Nose..if Aquiline or Adunc.

1795 W. Nisbet Inq. Cure Scrophula & Cancer i. 33 The nails assume an adunque or curved form.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 142 From his red hollow cheeks, adunc nose, and small appetite for butchers' meat, we wrote this man down in our imagination a Vampyre.

1849 J. Brown Let. Oct. (1907) liii. 75 He is a genuine Skye, with a third of his vertebræ omitted, and all the marrow of the omission transferred to his tail, that adunc tail.

1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice I. v. 74 The astute bill-discounter, adunc of nose.

1901 G. Saintsbury Earlier Renaissance ii. 113 The easy well-bred..man of the world who suspends everything on the adunc nose and occasionally scratches with still more adunc claws.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	adunc
释义	aduncadj. Brit. /əˈdʌŋk/, U.S. /əˈdəŋk/ Forms: 1600s adunck, 1600s 1800s– adunc, 1600s–1800s adunque. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin aduncus. Etymology: < classical Latin aduncus hooked, curved < ad- ad- prefix + uncus hooked, crooked, curved (see uncous adj.). Compare Italian adunco (a1374). Now rare. Esp. of the nose or beak: hooked; bent inward. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > like a hook hookedc1000 hooky1552 hookish1598 adunc1626 adunct1635 aduncous1656 uncous1658 aduncate1661 hamous1665 hooking1704 hamose1709 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §238 Parrets have an adunque Bill. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 72 Her face was flat, and very much like an Owles, if not more Oulebie, and her Nose adunck like an overgrown Eagles beake. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 297 The Nose..if Aquiline or Adunc. 1795 W. Nisbet Inq. Cure Scrophula & Cancer i. 33 The nails assume an adunque or curved form. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 142 From his red hollow cheeks, adunc nose, and small appetite for butchers' meat, we wrote this man down in our imagination a Vampyre. 1849 J. Brown Let. Oct. (1907) liii. 75 He is a genuine Skye, with a third of his vertebræ omitted, and all the marrow of the omission transferred to his tail, that adunc tail. 1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice I. v. 74 The astute bill-discounter, adunc of nose. 1901 G. Saintsbury Earlier Renaissance ii. 113 The easy well-bred..man of the world who suspends everything on the adunc nose and occasionally scratches with still more adunc claws. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1626
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