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English
Etymology
From owl + -y.
Adjective
owly (comparative owlier, superlative owliest)
- Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
2010, Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures, Dutton, published 2010, →ISBN, page 48:In the picture Miss Elizabeth showed me the croc had little piggy eyes, not huge owly ones.
- (Atlantic Canada) In a bad mood; cranky.
1988, Janette Oke, Winter Is Not Forever, Bethany House Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 16:I had no right to be owly and disagreeable with Willie.
- Seeing poorly.
1908, Vernon L. Kellogg, “The Vendetta”, in Insect Stories, Henry Holt and Company, page 55:Perhaps nice isn't the best word for him, but he certainly was an unusually imposing and fluffy-haired and fierce-looking brute of a tarantula. He had rather an owly way about him, as if he had come out from his hole too early and was dazed and half-blinded by the light.
- (Atlantic Canada) Silly.
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References
- T. K. Pratt, Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, University of Toronto Press (1988), →ISBN, pages 107-108
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, The Century Co. (1897), Volume 5, page 265
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