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dragonish

adj

Etymology

From dragon + -ish. Piecewise doublet of dragonesque.

  1. inherited from draca
  2. inherited from wyrm
  3. derived from δράκων
  4. derived from draco
  5. derived from dragon
  6. inherited from dragoun
  7. suffixed as dragonish — “dragon + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dragon.

    • […] a black-dressed matron—maybe, maid— / Mature, and dragonish of aspect, […]
    • Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ˈ damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dragonish. 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