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falconish

falconish adjective: like a falcon.

Adjective

falconish (comparative more falconish, superlative most falconish)

  1. Like a falcon.
    • The visage of the secretary bird is falconish in the extreme ; if possible, more so than that of the actual bird it is compared to.1886, Parker Gillmore, The Hunter's Arcadia, page 45
    • A wholly obscure contest, as was natural ; wherein, however, to all candid eyes the vulturous and falconish character of our Isle fully asserts itself; and the foreign Quack of Quacks, with all his thaumaturgic Hemp-silks, Lottery-numbers, Beauty-waters, Seductions, Phosphorus-boxes, and Wines of...1897, Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Forms of falconish

comparativemore falconish
superlativemost falconish

Origin of falconish

From falcon + -ish.

Questions about falconish

What does falconish mean?
Falconish means like a falcon.
What part of speech is falconish?
Falconish is an adjective.

Words near falconish in the dictionary

  1. falconiform
  2. falconiforms
  3. falconine
  4. falconing
  5. Falconis
  6. falconish
  7. falconlike
  8. falconologist
  9. falconologists
  10. falconries
  11. falconry

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