pelicanish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pelicanish (comparative more pelicanish, superlative most pelicanish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a pelican.
- 1954, Max Eastman, Poems of five decades, page 136:
- And with a grace that's also pelicanish / Hand them your bill.
- 1970, Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle, Being geniuses together, 1920-1930, Michael Joseph, page 77:
- 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.
- 1986, Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace, Doubleday Books, →ISBN, page 216:
- There was something pelicanish about his head and the foreign object of his larynx.