Entry: mysticetously (adj.)
In context: "Has anyone mentioned Gately's head is square? It's almost perfectly square, massive and boxy and mysticetously blunt: the head of somebody who looks like he likes to lower his head and charge."
Definition: I found this was pretty confusing, but eventually did track something that appears relevant:
mysticete (n.): A whale of the suborder Mysticeti of baleen or whalebone whales; spec. the Greenland right whale or bowhead, Balaena mysticetus.
So go ahead and search for pictures of baleen whale heads!
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SNOOT score: 1
Page: 476
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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