Synonyms for hawk
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hawk |
| Phonetic Transcription : hɔk |
Définition of hawk
Origin :- c.1300, hauk, earlier havek (c.1200), from Old English hafoc (W. Saxon), heafuc (Mercian), heafoc, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (cf. Old Norse haukr, Old Saxon habuc, Middle Dutch havik, Old High German habuh, German Habicht "hawk"), from a root meaning "to seize," from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (cf. Russian kobec "a kind of falcon;" see capable). Transferred sense of "militarist" attested from 1962.
- noun a warlike person
- Then if they do not sell I will hawk them from door to door.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- Come, man, you must be as hungry as a hawk—a slice of the beef?
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- A hawk, driving down out of the blue, had barely missed him.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- It was the same when he challenged the hawk down out of the sky.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Later, when he had grown more formidable, he wanted to eat the hawk.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- "Here—or no," the Hawk muttered to himself, though a dozen could hear him.
- Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore
- Did it mean what it would appear to—that he, the Hawk, was expected?
- Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore
- To her, who took no sides, there was every bit as much to be said for the hawk as for the chaffinch.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- And another god of theirs had the head of a hawk—the bird, you know.
- Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- I heard at the station that a lady and gentleman had gone to the Hawk and Heron.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
Antonyms for hawk
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