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deerish

adj

Etymology

From deer + -ish. Compare Dutch diers, German tierisch, Swedish djurisk, Norwegian dyrisk.

  1. inherited from *dʰewsóm✻ — “living thing”
  2. inherited from *deuzą✻
  3. inherited from *deuʀ✻
  4. inherited from dēor
  5. inherited from der
  6. suffixed as deerish — “deer + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a deer

    Characteristic of a deer; like a deer.

    • Near-synonym: cervid (in attributive use)
    • Then Jim spoke in a guarded tone. "I don't see a thing except a jay and some bushtits. Do you?" "No, I haven't seen a thing that looks deerish. I guess we drew a blank this trip. […] "
    • Twice a day the caribou was dressed in bells and led outside to pretend (with other deerish peers) that they had some vested interest in a fat man.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deerish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA