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gargoylish en · ADJ

Etymology

From gargoyle + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a gargoyle.
   • […] out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man. 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45
   • B's gargoylish face twisted into a scowl that seemed half-serious, half-humorous. 1996, Daniel Quinn, The Story of B, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 56:
   • I turn my eyes skyward and see the gargoylish figures still commanding the open air between the coiling columns of smoke. 2010, Matt Cardin, “The New Pauline Corpus”, in Darrell Schweitzer, editor, Cthulhu's Reign, DAW Books, →ISBN:

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Deriveds

gargoylishness · gargoylishly