unhookable

English

Etymology 1

From unhook +‎ -able.

Adjective

unhookable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being taken down from hooks.
Translations

Etymology 2

From un- +‎ hookable.

Adjective

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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