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pelicanish en · ADJ

Etymology

From pelican + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a pelican.
   • There was something pelicanish about his head and the foreign object of his larynx. 1986, Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace, Doubleday Books, →ISBN, page 216:
   • And with a grace that's also pelicanish / Hand them your bill. 1954, Max Eastman, Poems of five decades, page 136:
   • We were seated over a bottle of moselle when Tommy Earp entered and stood, rather pelicanish, looking dumbfounded with shyness as only Tommy can look. 1970, Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle, Being geniuses together, 1920-1930, Michael Joseph, page 77:

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