naknounthe nose19. etymology: a variant of Romany nok ‘the nose’; Hindi nāk ‘the nose’; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants; collected by Rev John Baird and Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsiesnote:
Grellmann (1787) collected Nàk with the same meaning from Continental gipsies.