OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 56332

adunc

/ˈæ.dʌnk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
adunco
Curved inward, hooked.
From Horace and Persius downward there have been two satiric manners - one that of the easy well-bred or would-be well-bred man of the world who suspends everything on the adunc no…
There was altogether something repulsive to sympathy about this old Shylock; and whether or not from any involuntary associations connected with his known profession (which certain…
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