Hawk definition
An example of to hawk is for a shark to go after a smaller fish.
An example of a hawk is a Cooper's hawk.
An example of a hawk is a shark in search of food.
An example of a hawk is a person who is an advocate of military force to carry out foreign policy.
It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
To hawk at flies.
Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
Origin of hawk
- Middle English hauk from Old English hafoc kap- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English hauken back-formation from hauker hawker
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Imitative
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English hauk, from Old English hafoc, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (compare West Frisian hauk, Dutch havik, German Habicht), from Proto-Indo-European *kobuĝo (compare Latin capys, capus 'bird of prey', Albanian gabonjë, shkabë 'eagle', Russian кобец (kóbec) 'falcon', Polish kobuz 'Eurasian Hobby').
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- Uncertain origin; perhaps from Middle English hache (“battle-axe”), or from a variant use of the above.
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- Back-formation from hawker.
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- Onomatopoeia.
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