hawk
English

Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: hôk, IPA(key): /hɔːk/
- (US) enPR: hôk, IPA(key): /hɔk/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: häk, IPA(key): /hɑk/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːk
- Homophone: hock (accents with cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English hauke, hauk, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc, heafoc, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (compare West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Norwegian hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur), from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos (compare Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)), perhaps ultimately derived from *keh₂p- (“seize”).
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 and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 106:
- 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.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 106:
- (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
- bay-winged hawk
- bee hawk
- bicoloured hawk
- black hawk
- broad-winged hawk
- brown hawk
- chicken-hawk
- chickenhawk
- chicken hawk
- common black hawk
- Cooper's hawk
- deficit hawk
- dorhawk
- dor-hawk
- dorrhawk
- dove hawk
- duck-hawk
- duck hawk
- eagle-hawk
- eaglehawk
- eagle hawk
- ferruginous hawk
- fish-hawk
- fish hawk
- fishhawk
- Galápagos hawk
- game hawk
- gnat hawk
- gnat-hawk
- gray hawk
- gray-lined hawk
- great black hawk
- great-footed hawk
- grey hawk
- grey-lined hawk
- Gundlach's hawk
- Harlan's hawk
- harrier hawk
- Harris hawk
- Hawaiian hawk
- hawk of the fist
- hawk of the lure
- hawk of the soar
- hen hawk
- hen-hawk
- hobby hawk
- hover-hawk
- jack-hawk
- jashawk
- Jayhawk
- kitchen hawk
- know a hawk from a handsaw
- Krider's hawk
- lark-hawk
- liberal hawk
- long-tailed hawk
- Lucifer hawk
- make-hawk
- mangrove black hawk
- man-of-war hawk
- mar-hawk
- market-hawk
- marsh hawk
- meadowhawk
- moor hawk
- mosquito hawk
- moth-hawk
- mountain hawk
- mouse hawk
- mouse-hawk
- news-hawk
- newshawk
- night hawk
- night-hawk
- pap-hawk
- partridge-hawk
- passage hawk
- peregrine hawk
- pigeon hawk
- pigeon-hawk
- plain-breasted hawk
- pondhawk
- prairie hawk
- quail hawk
- red-shouldered hawk
- red-tailed hawk
- Ridgway's hawk
- ringtail 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
- snake hawk
- snipe hawk
- sparhawk
- spar-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-breasted hawk
- white hawk
- white-throated hawk
- zone-tailed hawk
Derived terms
- between hawk and buzzard
- have eyes like a hawk
- hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx)
- hawk-dove game
- hawk-dove game
- hawk eagle/hawk-eagle
- hawked
- hawker
- hawkery
- hawk eye/hawk-eye/hawk-eyed
- hawkfish
- hawkfish
- hawk fly/hawk-fly
- hawk-headed parrot
- hawk-headed parrot
- hawkish
- hawk-kite
- hawklet
- hawklike
- hawk-like
- hawkling
- hawkmoth
- hawk-moth
- hawk moth
- hawk nose
- hawk-nose
- hawknose
- hawk-nosed
- hawk-nut
- hawknut
- hawk-owl
- hawk owl
- hawk-parrot
- hawksbeard
- hawk's-beard
- hawk's beard
- hawk's bell
- hawk's-bill
- 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
- hawk swallow
- hawk-swallow
- hawkweed
- hawkwise
- hawky
- know a hawk from a handsaw
- smoke hawk (Circus assimilis)
- watch (someone or something) like a hawk
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.
- 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:
- He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.
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- (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
- to hawk at flies
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- Shakespeare
- A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
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Etymology 2
Uncertain origin; perhaps from Middle English hache (“battle-axe”), or from a variant use of the above.
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
Translations
Etymology 3
Back-formation from hawker.
Verb
hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 4
Onomatopoeic.
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 cough up something from one's throat.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I. xvi. 117
- He hawked up, with incredible straining, the interjection ah!
- 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Viking Press, chapter 3:
- He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I. xvi. 117
- (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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