Kitish
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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
More examples"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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