owlish
/ˈaʊlɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
adj
Stupid; dull-looking.
Example Sentences
- "1914, Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, Chapter 26, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/fr100299.txt "You're very right," he said, with owlish smugness, adjusting a waistcoat button that had come loose, and smoothing his cuffs."
- "He feebly wanted to get out of this, away from clucking nurses and Dr. Crittenham's owlish peering and the horrible scrambled eggs and cold toast."
- "This owl imitated Trumpkin’s voice rather well, and there were sounds of owlish laughter all round."
- "He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom."
- "[…] their large black eyes scanned the drawings with the owlish look of wisdom peculiar to connoisseurs."
- "I feel, indeed, that something very ponderous, and solemn, and authoritative, and learned, and wise, and owlish, and erudite, ought to be said."
Etymology
Etymology tree English owl Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English owlish From owl + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more owlish (comparative)
most owlish (superlative)