Meanings
adjectivedawish (comparative more dawish, superlative most dawish)
comparative more dawish · superlative most dawish
- rareResembling a jackdaw.
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!
1873, Walter Rew, “A Hate Strain”, in Maud Vivian: A Drama; and Poems, page 1801 more example
[…] 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 […]
1862, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 2, page 277
Origin
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