pelicanish

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1. Resembling or characteristic of a pelican.

   And with a grace that's also pelicanish / Hand them your bill.

   1954, Max Eastman, Poems of five decades, page 136

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   We were seated over a bottle of moselle when Tommy Earp entered and stood, rather pelicanish, looking dumbfounded with shyness as only Tommy can look.

   1970, Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle, Being geniuses together, 1920-1930, Michael Joseph, page 77

   There was something pelicanish about his head and the foreign object of his larynx.

   1986, Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace, Doubleday Books, →ISBN, page 216