hawk
hawk - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: hôk, IPA: /hɔːk/
- (US) enPR: hôk, IPA: /hɔk/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: häk, IPA: /hɑk/
- Homophone: hock (accents with cot-caught merger)
Noun
hawk (plural hawks)
- A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
- It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
- Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
- (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.
- Antonym: dove
Hyponyms
- African harrier hawk
- aspere-hawk
- ball hawk
- bat hawk
- bay-winged hawk
- bee hawk
- bicoloured hawk
- bird hawk
- black hawk
- blue hawk
- broad-winged hawk
- brown hawk
- bush hawk
- buteo hawk
- buzzard hawk
- carrion hawk
- cherry hawk
- chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk
- cliff hawk
- common black hawk
- Cooper's hawk
- crane hawk
- crested hawk
- cuckoo hawk
- deficit hawk
- dor-hawk, dorhawk, dorrhawk
- dove hawk
- duck hawk, duck-hawk
- eagle hawk, eagle-hawk, eaglehawk
- ferruginous hawk
- fish hawk, fish-hawk, fishhawk
- Galápagos hawk
- game hawk
- gnat hawk, gnat-hawk
- gopher hawk
- grasshopper hawk
- gray hawk, grey hawk
- gray-lined hawk, grey-lined hawk
- great black hawk
- great-footed hawk
- Gundlach's hawk
- Harlan's hawk
- harrier hawk
- Harris's hawk
- Hawaiian hawk
- hen hawk, hen-hawk
- hobby hawk
- hover-hawk
- jack-hawk
- jashawk
- Jayhawk
- jiddy hawk
- killy hawk
- kitchen hawk
- kite hawk
- kitty hawk
- Krider's hawk
- lark-hawk
- liberal hawk
- long-tailed hawk
- Lucifer hawk
- make-hawk
- man-of-war hawk
- mangrove black hawk
- mar-hawk
- market-hawk
- marsh hawk
- meadowhawk
- molly hawk
- moor hawk
- mosquito hawk
- moth-hawk
- mountain hawk
- mouse hawk, mouse-hawk
- mullet hawk
- news-hawk, newshawk
- night hawk, night-hawk
- pap-hawk
- partridge-hawk
- passage hawk
- peregrine hawk
- perry hawk
- pigeon hawk, pigeon-hawk
- plain-breasted hawk
- pondhawk
- prairie hawk
- quail hawk
- red hawk
- red-shouldered hawk
- red-tailed hawk
- Ridgway's hawk
- ringtail hawk
- rock hawk
- rook hawk
- rough-legged hawk
- rufous-thighed hawk
- savanna hawk
- screech hawk, screech-hawk
- sea hawk, sea-hawk
- semicollared hawk
- sharp-shinned hawk
- shite-hawk
- short-tailed hawk
- shower hawk
- skeeter hawk
- small-bird-hawk
- smoke hawk (Circus assimilis)
- snake hawk
- snipe hawk
- sparrow hawk, sparrow-hawk, sparrowhawk
- squirrel hawk
- stand hawk
- stannel hawk
- star-hawk
- stone hawk
- Swainson's hawk
- swallow-tailed hawk
- tarantula hawk
- tiny hawk
- vanner hawk
- war hawk, war-hawk
- whistling hawk
- white hawk
- white-breasted hawk
- white-throated hawk
- zone-tailed hawk
Derived terms
- Berigora hawk
- between hawk and buzzard
- blue hen-hawk
- blue marsh hawk
- budget hawk
- changeable hawk-eagle
- cicada hawk
- climate hawk
- crested hawk-eagle
- cuckoo-hawk
- duck-hawk
- eagle-hawk
- fish-hawk
- green marsh hawk
- have eyes like a hawk
- hawk eagle/hawk-eagle
- hawk eye/hawk-eye/hawk-eyed
- hawk fly/hawk-fly
- hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth
- hawk nose, hawk-nose, hawknose
- hawk of the fist
- hawk of the lure
- hawk of the sea
- hawk of the soar
- hawk owl, hawk-owl
- hawk swallow, hawk-swallow
- hawk-beaked
- hawk-billed
- hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx)
- hawk-dove game
- hawk-faced
- hawk-headed parrot
- hawk-kite
- hawk-like, hawklike
- hawk-nose
- hawk-nosed
- hawk-nut, hawknut
- hawk-owl
- hawk-parrot
- hawked
- hawker
- hawkery
- hawkfish
- hawkish
- hawkishness
- hawkism
- hawkist
- hawkless
- hawklet
- hawkling
- hawk's beard, hawk's-beard, hawksbeard
- hawk's bell
- hawk's bill, hawksbill
- hawk's eye, hawk's-eye
- hawk's meat
- hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle
- hawk's-feet
- hawk's-foot
- hawkweed
- hawkwise
- hawky
- hen-hawk
- know a hawk from a handsaw
- like a hawk
- like a mother hawk
- northern hawk owl
- privet hawk moth
- red-backed hawk
- roadside hawk
- rufous-tailed hawk
- screech-hawk
- spar-hawk
- watch (someone or something) like a hawk
- white-rumped hawk
- white-tailed hawk
Related terms
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Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: aka
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Verb
hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
- to hawk at flies
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Noun
hawk (plural hawks)
- A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
- Synonym: mortarboard
Derived terms
- hawk boy, hawk-boy
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Verb
hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
- The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.
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Noun
hawk (plural hawks)
Synonyms
- hawking (noun)
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Verb
hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up something from one's throat.
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.
- Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
Derived terms
- hawking (noun)
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hawk - Manx
Noun
hawk
- Lenited form of shawk.