hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔːk/
enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔk/
enpr: häk
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: [hɔ(ː)k]
rhymes: -ɔːk
homophone: hock (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hawks
Etymology: From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *keh₂p- (“seize”).
See also West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).
Senses: examples: text: It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
text: He made his hawke to fly,
With hogeous showte and cry.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 47–48:
glosses: A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
glosses: Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 106:
text: “Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves,” Bundy told the ExComm on the morning of October 28, after Khrushchev announced that he was withdrawing his missiles. “Today was the day of the doves.”
ref: 2012 October 11 [1962], Michael Dobbs, quoting McGeorge Bundy, “The original hawks and doves”, in Foreign Policy:
text: President Donald Trump has spent years playing the role of a China hawk.
ref: 2019, “The World in 2020”, in The Economist:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: warmonger
war hawk
antonyms: dove
glosses: An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: dove
glosses: An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.
examples: text: […] take-out sandwich from Arnie's on Jackson, then a brisk walk to Michigan Avenue in the face of the "Hawk," blowing newspapers and skirts and the gulls wheeling over the Michigan Avenue Bridge in front of […]
ref: 2000 September 26, William Anderson, A Season of Flames, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 27:
text: […] a hand-fired coal furnace that required little attention and kept the cottage coy in spite of "the hawk" blowing icy blasts outside. So in spite of Thumper's continuing discomfort we enjoyed a fairly merry Christmas. But then the base daily bulletin was published with the roster of OGs (officers of the guard) for the[…]
ref: 2002 June 25, Charles W. Dryden, A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 215:
text: I wanna learn by Ruby's birthday party." Pride turned up his collar against the hawk blowing from the river."
ref: 2007 December 1, Gay G. Gunn, Pride and Joi, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 47:
text: […] in Chicago […] I can't help but love winter and fall. Mostly fall, because fuck snow, and that hawk blowing off the lake is enough to make your teeth drop right out of your skull , but winter can be kind of okay if it doesn't snow a whole lot and no one asks me to go sledding or do some other Hallmark-movie nonsense.
ref: 2017 May 30, Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays, Vintage, →ISBN, page 95:
qualifier: especially Chicago; and nationwide in African-American; especially Chicago; and nationwide in African-American
glosses: Cold, sharp or biting wind.
Hyponyms: word: African harrier hawk
word: aspere-hawk
word: ball hawk
word: bat hawk
word: bay-winged hawk
word: bee hawk
word: bicoloured hawk
word: bird hawk
word: black hawk
word: blue hawk
word: broad-winged hawk
word: brown hawk
word: bush hawk
word: buteo hawk
word: buzzard hawk
word: carrion hawk
word: cherry hawk
word: chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk
word: cliff hawk
word: common black hawk
word: Cooper's hawk
word: crane hawk
word: crested hawk
word: Cuban black hawk
word: cuckoo hawk
word: deficit hawk
word: dor-hawk, dorhawk, dorrhawk
word: dove hawk
word: duck hawk, duck-hawk
word: eagle hawk, eagle-hawk, eaglehawk
word: fauxhawk
word: ferruginous hawk
word: fire hawk
word: fish hawk, fish-hawk, fishhawk
word: Galápagos hawk
word: game hawk
word: gnat hawk, gnat-hawk
word: gopher hawk
word: grasshopper hawk
word: gray hawk, grey hawk
word: gray-lined hawk, grey-lined hawk
word: great black hawk
word: great-footed hawk
word: Gundlach's hawk
word: Harlan's hawk
word: Harlan's red-tailed hawk
word: harrier hawk
word: Harris's hawk
word: Hawaiian hawk
word: hen hawk, hen-hawk
word: hobby hawk
word: hover-hawk
word: jack-hawk
word: jashawk
word: Jayhawk
word: jiddy hawk
word: killy hawk
word: kitchen hawk
word: kite hawk
word: kitty hawk
word: Krider's hawk
word: lark-hawk
word: liberal hawk
word: long-tailed hawk
word: Lucifer hawk
word: make-hawk
word: mangrove black hawk
word: man-of-war hawk
word: mar-hawk
word: market-hawk
word: marsh hawk
word: meadowhawk
word: molly hawk
word: moor hawk
word: mosquito hawk
word: moth-hawk
word: mountain hawk
word: mouse hawk, mouse-hawk
word: mullet hawk
word: news-hawk, newshawk
word: night hawk, night-hawk
word: pap-hawk
word: partridge-hawk
word: passage hawk
word: peregrine hawk
word: perry hawk
word: pigeon hawk, pigeon-hawk
word: plain-breasted hawk
word: pondhawk
word: prairie hawk
word: quail hawk
word: red hawk
word: red-shouldered hawk
word: red-tailed hawk
word: Ridgway's hawk
word: ringtail hawk
word: rock hawk
word: rook hawk
word: rough-legged hawk
word: rufous-thighed hawk
word: savanna hawk
word: screech hawk, screech-hawk
word: sea hawk, sea-hawk
word: semicollared hawk
word: sharp-shinned hawk
word: shite-hawk
word: short-tailed hawk
word: shower hawk
word: skeeter hawk
word: small-bird-hawk
taxonomic: Circus assimilis
word: smoke hawk
word: snake hawk
word: snipe hawk
word: sparrow hawk, sparrow-hawk, sparrowhawk
word: squirrel hawk
word: stand hawk
word: stannel hawk
word: star-hawk
word: stone hawk
word: Swainson's hawk
word: swallow-tailed hawk
word: tarantula hawk
word: tiny hawk
word: vanner hawk
word: war hawk, war-hawk
word: whistling hawk
word: white-breasted hawk
word: white hawk
word: white-throated hawk
word: zone-tailed hawk
Derived terms: word: African harrier-hawk
word: ballhawk
word: Berigora hawk
word: between hawk and buzzard
word: blue hen-hawk
word: blue marsh hawk
word: budget hawk
word: changeable hawk-eagle
word: chickenhawk
word: cicada hawk
word: climate hawk
word: common hawk-cuckoo
word: crested hawk-eagle
word: cuckoo-hawk
word: dorhawk
word: duck-hawk
word: duskhawk
word: eagle-hawk
word: eaglehawk
word: fish-hawk
word: fishhawk
word: flyhawk
word: grasshawk
word: green marsh hawk
word: gunhawk
word: harrier-hawk
word: have eyes like a hawk
word: hawk-beaked
word: hawkbell
word: hawk-billed
english: Hierococcyx
translation: Hierococcyx
word: hawk-cuckoo
word: hawk-dove game
word: hawk eagle
word: hawk-eagle
word: hawked
word: hawker
word: Hawkery
word: hawkery
word: Hawk-Eye
word: hawk eye
word: hawk-eye
word: hawk-eyed
word: hawk-faced
word: hawkfish
word: hawk fly
word: hawk-fly
word: hawk-headed parrot
word: hawkish
word: hawkishness
word: hawkism
word: hawkist
word: hawk-kite
word: hawkless
word: hawklet
word: hawklike
word: hawk-like, hawklike
word: hawkling
word: hawkmoth
word: hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth
word: hawknose
word: hawk-nose
word: hawknosed
word: hawk-nosed
word: hawk nose, hawk-nose, hawknose
word: hawk-nut, hawknut
word: hawk of the fist
word: hawk of the lure
word: hawk of the sea
word: hawk of the soar
word: hawk-owl
word: hawk owl, hawk-owl
word: hawk-parrot
word: hawksbeard
word: hawk's beard, hawk's-beard, hawksbeard
word: hawk's bell
word: hawk's bill, hawksbill
word: hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle
word: hawk's eye, hawk's-eye
word: hawk's-feet
word: hawk's-foot
word: hawk's meat
word: hawk swallow, hawk-swallow
word: hawkweed
word: Hawkwing
word: hawkwise
word: hawky
word: hen-hawk
word: know a hawk from a handsaw
word: like a hawk
word: like a mother hawk
word: newshawk
word: nighthawk
word: northern hawk owl
word: ornate hawk-eagle
word: parahawk
word: pigeonhawk
word: privet hawk moth
word: puttock
word: red-backed hawk
word: roadside hawk
word: rufous-tailed hawk
word: screech-hawk
word: seahawk
word: shitehawk
word: spar-hawk
word: sparrowhawk
english: someone or something
translation: someone or something
word: watch like a hawk
word: Whitehawk
word: white-rumped hawk
word: white-tailed hawk
Related terms: creshawk
goshawk
sparhawk