subs. (shoemakers’).—The nose: see CONK: hence OLD PASTE-HORN = a large-nosed man.
1856. H. MAYHEW, The Great World of London, 6, note. Upon this principle the mouth has come to be styled the ‘tater-trap’;… the nose, the ‘PASTE-HORN.’
subs. (shoemakers’).—The nose: see CONK: hence OLD PASTE-HORN = a large-nosed man.
1856. H. MAYHEW, The Great World of London, 6, note. Upon this principle the mouth has come to be styled the ‘tater-trap’;… the nose, the ‘PASTE-HORN.’
