owlish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Resembling or characteristic of an owl.

   “1914, Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, Chapter 26, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/fr100299.txt "You're very right," he said, with owlish smugness, adjusting a waistcoat button that had come loose, and smoothing his cuffs.”

2. sıfat Wise and solemn.

   “He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom.”

3. sıfat Stupid; dull-looking.

   “But, indeed, the young Venetian is, at that age when all men are owlish, ignorant, and vapid, the most owlish, ignorant, and vapid man in the world.”