dawish

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English

Etymology

From daw +‎ -ish.

Adjective

dawish (comparative more dawish, superlative most dawish)

  1. (rare) Like a jackdaw.
    • 1862, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 2, page 277:
      […] 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 […]
    • A Hate Strain, in 1873, Walter Rew, Maud Vivian: A Drama; and Poems (page 180)
      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!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dawish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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