fishhook
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fishhook
First recorded in 1350–1400, fishhook is from the Middle English word fischhook. See fish, hook 1
Example Sentences
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"That's what happened here. We had all sort of noticed this fishhook squiggle on the rock. It was pretty prominent because it was really, really deep."
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024
Billowing white clouds drifted off burnt-brown hills bristling with branched and twisted Joshua trees and fishhook cactus.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2022
“So Kurt came up with the idea of adding a fishhook to make it more menacing,” Fisher said for the Milanote article, which Elden cites in his lawsuit.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2021
He, on the other hand, was swarthy, big fishhook of a nose, two inches shorter than she.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2018
He thought he’d reeled in yet another brown trout, and it turns out he’s got a thirty-pound salmon struggling to wrench itself off his barbed fishhook.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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