Crossword clues for owlish
owlish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Owlish \Owl"ish\, a. Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from owl + -ish. Related: Owlishly; owlishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 resembling or characteristic of an owl 2 wise and solemn
WordNet
adj. resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance
Usage examples of "owlish".
Hembroke saw a stoopish man wearing an alpaca coat and kid gloves, whose eyes were owlish in round glasses that magnified their size.
They were tweezed very thin and gave her an owlish look behind the glasses.
They were tweezed very thin and gave her an owlish look behind the glasses.
Only on closer view did he mark the starved fancy and beauty, the stale and prosy triteness, and the owlish gravity and grotesque claims of solid truth which reigned boresomely and overwhelmingly among most of its professors.
In the mirror a huge-eyed creature gazed at Janie, like a tarsier or one of the owlish caligo moths.
The standard tornado freak tended to be, at heart, a rather bookish, owlish sort, carefully reading the latest netcasts and polishing his digital binoculars so he could jump out the door and frantically pursue a brief, elusive phenomenon that usually lasted bare minutes.