dragonish

comparative more dragonish · superlative most dragonish

1. Resembling or characteristic of a dragon.

   Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ˈ damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black.

   c. 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 52

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   Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, / A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, / A forked mountain, or blue promontory / With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, / And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; / They are black vesper's pageants.

   c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]

   […] a black-dressed matron—maybe, maid— / Mature, and dragonish of aspect, […]

   1873, Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers

   That's Hooktail! Max HP is 20, Attack is 5, and Defense is 1. She'll stomp and munch on you, and she has a more dragonish attack—stinky, fiery breath!

   2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Hooktail Castle

   The habits and appearance of the Ickabog changed depending on who was describing it. Some made it snakelike, others dragonish or wolflike. Some said it roared, others that it hissed, and still others said that it drifted as silently as the mists that descended on the marsh without warning.

   2020, J. K. Rowling, “Chapter 2: The Ickabog”, in The Ickabog, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 7

   Synonyms: draconian, draconic, draconical, draconine, dragonesque, dragonlike, dragony