dragonish

English

Etymology

dragon +‎ -ish

Adjective

dragonish (comparative more dragonish, superlative most dragonish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a dragon.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]:

     Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, / A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, / A forked mountain, or blue promontory / With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, / And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; / They are black vesper's pageants.

   • 1873, Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers‎^[1]:

     […] a black-dressed matron—maybe, maid— / Mature, and dragonish of aspect, […]

   • c. 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 52:

     Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ˈ damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black.

See also

• draconian
• draconic

Anagrams

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