hawk
see also: Hawk
Pronunciation Noun
Hawk
Proper noun
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see also: Hawk
Pronunciation Noun
hawk (plural hawks)
- A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
- It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
- Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. [from 1962]
- Synonyms: warmonger, war hawk
- Antonyms: dove
- 1962, McGeorge Bundy
- Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 106:
- A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act.
- 2019, "The World in 2020", The Economist
- President Donald Trump has spent years playing the role of a China hawk.
- (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.
- Antonyms: dove
- French: buse
- German: Habicht
- Italian: falco, sparviero, sparviere
- Portuguese: gavião
- Russian: я́стреб
- Spanish: rapaz, azor, gavilán
- French: faucon
- German: Falke, Kriegshetzer, Kriegshetzerin, Kriegstreiber, Kriegstreiberin, Militarist, Militaristin, Bellizist, Bellizistin
- Italian: falco
- Portuguese: belicista
- Russian: я́стреб
- Spanish: halcón
hawk (hawks, present participle hawking; past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
- to hawk at flies
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:
- A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
- Portuguese: falcoar
hawk (plural hawks)
- A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
- Synonyms: mortarboard
hawk (hawks, present participle hawking; past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
- The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.
- His works were hawked in every street.
hawk (plural hawks)
Synonyms- hawking (noun)
- Italian: scatarrare,
- Portuguese: pigarro, pigarreada
hawk (hawks, present participle hawking; past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To cough up something from one's throat.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I. xvi. 117
- He hawked up, with incredible straining, the interjection ah!
- 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Viking Press, chapter 3:
- He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I. xvi. 117
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.
- Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
- Portuguese: pigarrear, expectorar, escarrar
- Spanish: expectorar
Hawk
Proper noun
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