Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
vulturine , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Vulturous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
vulture ;rapacious .
Etymologies
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vulture + -ish
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Examples
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There were men waiters in the conventional garb of waiterdom, and there was Madam, harder looking and more vulturish.
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Valiant Wisdom tilling and draining; escorted by owl-eyed Pedantry, by owlish and vulturish and many other forms of
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Wisdom tilling and draining; escorted by owl-eyed Pedantry, by owlish and vulturish and many other forms of Folly; -- the valiant husbandman assiduously tilling; the blind greedy enemy _too_ assiduously sowing tares!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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