hawky
English
Adjective
hawky (comparative more hawky, superlative most hawky)
- Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.
- 1953, Mignon Good Eberhart, The unknown quantity
- He was a tall man with very powerful-looking shoulders, but his flesh seemed to sag thinly over his big frame; his face was thin, too, over a hawky nose and receding chin and gray hair.
- 1963, D'Arcy Niland, The shiralee
- He had a hawky face with a high colour and eyes like slits of blue crystal, set in a web of fine lines. They were hard but not unkind.
- 1953, Mignon Good Eberhart, The unknown quantity
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