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kitish en · ADJ

Etymology

From kite + -ish.

Meanings

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. 1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance, volume 1, page 174:

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