hawk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
entomology
game-theory
government
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.?
Proto-Germanic *habukaz
Proto-West Germanic *habuk
Old English hafoc
Middle English hauk
English hawk
From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc, from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *kap- (“seize”).
Cognate with 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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: hawks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hawks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hawking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hawked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hawked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
pos: noun
examples: It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
He made his hawke to fly,
With hogeous showte and cry.
gloss: Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
pos: noun
gloss: An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
“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.”
President Donald Trump has spent years playing the role of a China hawk.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Cold, sharp or biting wind.
pos: noun
tags: US
often
with-definite-article
examples: […] 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 […]
[…] 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[…]
I wanna learn by Ruby's birthday party." Pride turned up his collar against the hawk blowing from the river."
[…] 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.
gloss: To hunt with a hawk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To hawke, or els to hunt
From the auter to the funt
He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.
gloss: To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to hawk at flies
A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
But whether upward to the moon they go, Or dream the winter out in caves below, Or hawk at flies elsewhere
Dollarbirds hawk from high bare branches.
Related words: creshawk
goshawk
sparhawk
Derived words: African harrier-hawk
ballhawk
Berigora hawk
between hawk and buzzard
blue hen-hawk
blue marsh hawk
budget hawk
changeable hawk-eagle
chickenhawk
cicada hawk
climate hawk
common hawk-cuckoo
crested hawk-eagle
cuckoo-hawk
dorhawk
duck-hawk
duskhawk
eaglehawk
eagle-hawk
fishhawk
fish-hawk
flyhawk
grasshawk
green marsh hawk
gunhawk
harrier-hawk
have eyes like a hawk
hawk-beaked
hawkbell
hawk-billed
hawk-cuckoo
hawk-dove game
hawk eagle
hawk-eagle
Hawkery
Hawk-Eye
hawk eye
hawk-eye
hawk-eyed
hawk-faced
hawkfish
hawk fly
hawk-fly
hawk-headed parrot
hawkish
hawkishness
hawkism
hawkist
hawk-kite
hawkless
hawklet
hawklike
hawk-like
hawkling
hawkmoth
hawk moth
hawk-moth
hawknose
hawk-nose
hawknosed
hawk-nosed
hawk nose
hawk-nut
hawknut
hawk of the fist
hawk of the lure
hawk of the sea
hawk of the soar
hawk-owl
hawk owl
hawk-parrot
hawksbeard
hawk's beard
hawk's-beard
hawk's bell
hawk's bill
hawksbill
hawk's-bill turtle
hawksbill turtle
hawk's eye
hawk's-eye
hawk's-feet
hawk's-foot
hawk's meat
Hawks Nest
hawk swallow
hawk-swallow
hawkweed
Hawkwing
hawkwise
hen-hawk
know a hawk from a handsaw
like a hawk
like a mother hawk
newshawk
nighthawk
northern hawk owl
ornate hawk-eagle
parahawk
pigeonhawk
privet hawk moth
puttock
red-backed hawk
roadside hawk
rufous-tailed hawk
screech-hawk
seahawk
shitehawk
spar-hawk
sparrowhawk
watch like a hawk
Whitehawk
white-rumped hawk
white-tailed hawk
hawked
hawkery
hawky
hawker
hawk after
hawk at
hawk for
hawking
Translations: