unhookable

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

unhook +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

unhookable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being taken down from hooks.
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

un- +‎ hookable

Adjective[edit]

unhookable (not comparable)

  1. Impossible to hook or catch hold of.
    • 2008, Paul Schullery, Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir, page 51:
      The water was full of unhookable fish; they would strike savagely but quickly slip from the hook before I could even identify them.
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