paste-horn

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English

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Etymology

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From the resemblance to the horn in which shoemakers kept their paste.

Noun

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paste-horn (plural paste-horns)

  1. (slang, obsolete) A person's nose.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

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