conky

English

Etymology

conk + -y

Adjective

conky (comparative more conky, superlative most conky)

  1. (slang) Having a prominent nose.
    • 2001, The Weakest Link Quiz Book, page 71:
      In history, which duke and general, born in 1769, was nicknamed 'Old Conky'?
    • 2011, Glyn Jones, The Valley, the City, the Village:
      He had taken his place amidst cheering and table-bumping alongside Stonker Watkins, the presiding Lucifer, a conky bespectacled giant with a crimson nose, []

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