hooknose, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hooknose n.

also hookface, hooknosed gentry, hooknose Jew

[physiological stereotyping; also note Folb, Runnin’ Down Some Lines (1980): ‘Whites who display characteristics associated with what is seen as Jewish behavior or looks are often labeled as such. I heard a variety of non-Jewish people, such as Italians, Armenians, and Greeks, being called by these terms because they showed stereotypic Jewish features or they behaved in some manner associated with Jews’]

a derog. term for a Jew; also a derog. term of address.

1836		W. Kent Guardian 11 June 4: The hooknose, Jew-jobbing elder happened not to be to the taste of the modern Susanna.
1865		R.S. Surtees Facey Romford’s Hounds 167: She supposed ‘old hooknose’ would be in no hurry for his money.
1867		G.W. Harris Sut Lovingood’s Yarns 176: The place whar murd’rs, ’dult’rs, hook-nose Jews, suckit-riders [...] go tu.
1880		Western Times 24 May 2/2: Now you have the Quaker in parliament the condemnable hook-nose Jew will soon follow!
1882		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 22 July 3/1: [T]he Frohmans, the Heymans and the Manns and their hook-nosed coterie scoop it all in.
1904		Truth (Syney) 10 July 1/2: This [South Africa] are where the hook-nosed gentry / Makes a heaven awl there own.
1932		(con. 1910s) J.T. Farrell Young Lonigan in Studs Lonigan (1936) 130: Two hooknoses, about Stud’s size, did come along.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1952		(con. 1910s) ‘Harry Grey’ Hoods (1953) 35: Be careful, Hooknose, you’ll get your long nose caught in the eggs.
1979		Monty Python Life of Brian [film script] I’m a kike, a yid, a hebe, a hooknose.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 61: There are a number of vernacular terms that characterize apparent Jews as hook, hookface, hooknose.
1994		Khalid Muhammad speech in N.Y. Times 28 Feb. B1: That old no-good Jew, that old imposter Jew, that old hooknose, bagel-eating, lox-eating [...] so-called damn Jew.
2003		posting at photo.net 🌐 If I called you a nigger, whop, spic, faggot, hooknose Jew, etc., would you think it funny?
[2008		D. Sedaris When You’re Engulfed in Flames 103: I was to tell the hook-nosed Jew bastard that he owed my neighbor four cents.