oxishly

comparative more oxishly · superlative most oxishly

1. rareIn a manner like that of an ox.

   He blinked at us, yawned oxishly, and went out again.

   2009, Adam Roberts, chapter 9, in Yellow Blue Tibia, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 114

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   The shy young man gazed like a calf, blushed when she looked at him, smiled oxishly when she talked, and forgot to eat his dinner.

   1925, Aldous Huxley, “Wander-birds”, in Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, part I (Travel in General), page 29

   I saw The Exorcist when I was thirteen, and I’ve never really recovered from Regan’s grinning gray-green face. The oxishly horned devil in Legend mesmerized me.

   2017 July 31, Debi Moore, quoting Benjamin Percy, “Guest Post: Benjamin Percy Faces His Digital Demons for The Dark Net”, in Dread Central, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2017