owlish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
    — 1914, Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, Chapter 26, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/fr100299.txt "You're very right," he said, with owlish smugness, adjusting a waistcoat button that had come loose, and smoothing his cuffs.
  2. Wise and solemn.
    — He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom.
  3. Stupid; dull-looking.
    — But, indeed, the young Venetian is, at that age when all men are owlish, ignorant, and vapid, the most owlish, ignorant, and vapid man in the world.

词形变化

more owlish comparative most owlish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
owlishly owlishness

词源

Etymology tree
English owl
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English owlish
From owl + -ish.
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