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beaverish

beaverish adjective: characteristic of a beaver.

Adjective

beaverish (comparative more beaverish, superlative most beaverish)

  1. Characteristic of a beaver.
    • Gary and Chipper, her fifth-grader and her first-grader, had the chlorination of the Y about them. With their damp hair they looked riparian. Muskratty, beaverish.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of beaverish

comparativemore beaverish
superlativemost beaverish

Origin of beaverish

From beaver + -ish.

Questions about beaverish

What does beaverish mean?
Beaverish means characteristic of a beaver.
What part of speech is beaverish?
Beaverish is an adjective.

Words near beaverish in the dictionary

  1. beaveries
  2. beaverine
  3. beaverines
  4. beavering
  5. beavering away
  6. beaverish
  7. beaverite
  8. Beaverkill
  9. beaverkin
  10. beaverkins
  11. beaverless

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