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单词 hawkish
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hawkishadj.

Brit. /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈhɔkɪʃ/, /ˈhɑkɪʃ/
Etymology: < hawk n.1 + -ish suffix1.
Somewhat of the nature or appearance of a hawk. Also, inclined to favour hard-line or warlike policies. Cf. hawk n.1 3.
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boarisha1718
savage-fierce1770
Tartar1809
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wolfy1828
savagerous1832
hawkish1841
tigery1859
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Hunnish1915
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [adjective] > supporting warlike policies
hawkish1965
1841 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 245 Of temper most accipitral, hawkish, aquiline, not to say vulturish.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn I. vi. 64 She..was now too fierce and hawkish looking, though you would still call her handsome.
1965 New Statesman 17 Sept. 386/2 The very hawkish chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee..hankers to bomb Communist China.
1967 Listener 21 Sept. 365/2 It is..inevitable for the newspaper to take a strong—or, as we would now say, hawkish—stand in any international dispute.
1968 Guardian 9 July 8/6 Sir Henry Johnson, chief of BRB, was a true hard-liner, most hawkish of hawks.
1968 Times 4 Nov. 1/1 President Thieu agreed to the bombing halt in advance and..his present performance is directed at hawkish opinion within South Vietnam.
1972 Listener 6 Jan. 8/1 Pakistan's hawkish enemies in New Delhi.

Derivatives

ˈhawkishness n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > warlike policies
gun1936
hawkishness1967
1967 Guardian 15 Feb. 6/2 Hawkishness in Bonn could undo the promise of everything that has so far been achieved.
1969 Guardian 13 Feb. 10/1 At yesterday's student meeting [at LSE] there were signs of a new hawkishness among the moderates.
1970 Guardian 4 Aug. 2/6 Withdrawal may be political dynamite, but so is hawkishness.
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