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dawish

dawish adjective: resembling a jackdaw.

Adjective

dawish (comparative more dawish, superlative most dawish)

  1. (rare) Resembling a jackdaw.
    • […] a piece of meat to which Mr. Jackdaw had helped himself, and which he was holding firmly down with one foot whilst he pecked away at it after the dawish fashion […]1862, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 2, page 277
    • An officer! A dawish fool, forsooth,
      His class——denial of God in man; in truth
      I've scarce the time for pity,—none for ruth.
      Go marry then your Soldier!1873, Walter Rew, “A Hate Strain”, in Maud Vivian: A Drama; and Poems, page 180

Forms of dawish

comparativemore dawish
superlativemost dawish

Origin of dawish

From daw + -ish.

Questions about dawish

What does dawish mean?
Dawish means resembling a jackdaw.
What part of speech is dawish?
Dawish is an adjective.

Words near dawish in the dictionary

  1. dawgs
  2. Dawida
  3. dawing
  4. dawings
  5. Dawis
  6. dawish
  7. dawk
  8. dawk bungalow
  9. dawk bungalows
  10. dawked
  11. Dawkes

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