Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Owllike; resembling an owl or some one of its features.
- Having an appearance of preternatural gravity and wisdom.
- Stupid; dull; fat-witted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
resembling orcharacteristic of anowl - adjective
wise andsolemn
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance
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Examples
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The American nodded with a kind of owlish solemnity.
Partners In Crime Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984
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The Canadian-born, "owlish" architect loses his cool with a reporter from the British newspaper the
Curbed 2009
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In comments I admitted I had a hummingbird spirit but was striving to learn owlish ways.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline 2009
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In flashbulbs they went owlish, lacquered in oil blue.
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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Bottom line: Outlines might be more suited to owlish writers, but they can be used effectively by hummingbirds like me, too.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline 2009
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I suspect that I, too, am a hummingbird trying to learn owlish ways.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline 2009
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We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar.
Richard Klass: Death of a Salesman Richard Klass 2011
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In flashbulbs they went owlish, lacquered in oil blue.
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar.
Richard Klass: Death of a Salesman Richard Klass 2011
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Senate Minority Leader McConnell, 68, is owlish, phlegmatic, and gray, and often looks bothered, as though lunch isn't agreeing with him.
Morning Bits Jennifer Rubin 2011
ecrivaine33 commented on the word owlish
Probably because I am just mad about owls
January 18, 2007