William the Conk
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- William the Conqueror
- conk: (slang) nose
- The Duke of Wellington, because of his prominent nose, was often called “Old Conky.”
- ref: Sunday Pictorial 29 Oct 1922, 9/1: 'Review of "The Nine O'Clock Revue" at the Little': 'Who can resist Beatrice Lillie? I can't. Hear her sing her ancestry in "William the Conk!" with moustache and bowler hat' (see 'moustaches' in the previous line and Lili O'Rangans at 30.1]
