Kitish

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or pertaining to a kite (the bird of prey).

    "Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable."

Example

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"Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable."

Etymology

From kite + -ish.

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