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kitish

kitish adjective: resembling or pertaining to a kite (the bird of prey).

Adjective

kitish (comparative more kitish, superlative most kitish)

  1. Resembling or pertaining to a kite (the bird of prey).
    • Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance, volume 1, page 174

Forms of kitish

comparativemore kitish
superlativemost kitish

Origin of kitish

From kite + -ish.

Questions about kitish

What does kitish mean?
Kitish means resembling or pertaining to a kite (the bird of prey).
What part of speech is kitish?
Kitish is an adjective.

Words near kitish in the dictionary

  1. Kitimat-Stikine
  2. Kitinen
  3. kiting
  4. kiting around
  5. kitings
  6. kitish
  7. Kitivy
  8. Kitja
  9. Kitkahaxki
  10. kitkaite
  11. kitkat

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