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Webster 1913 Edition


Dawish

Daw′ish

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Adj.
Like a daw.

Definition 2024


dawish

dawish

English

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 []