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gargoylish

gargoylish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a gargoyle.

Adjective

gargoylish (comparative more gargoylish, superlative most gargoylish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gargoyle.
    • […] out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man.1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45
    • B's gargoylish face twisted into a scowl that seemed half-serious, half-humorous.1996, Daniel Quinn, The Story of B, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 56

Forms of gargoylish

comparativemore gargoylish
superlativemost gargoylish

Origin of gargoylish

From gargoyle + -ish.

Words formed from gargoylish

Questions about gargoylish

What does gargoylish mean?
Gargoylish means resembling or characteristic of a gargoyle.
What part of speech is gargoylish?
Gargoylish is an adjective.

Words near gargoylish in the dictionary

  1. gargoyleish
  2. gargoylelike
  3. gargoyles
  4. gargoylesque
  5. gargoyley
  6. gargoylish
  7. gargoylishly
  8. gargoylishness
  9. gargoylism
  10. gargoylisms
  11. Gargrave

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