dragon
noun
a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
dragonish
-
a word derived from
dragon.
Example Sentences
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He was dealing with sickness rather than mortal wounds, but that scorching sense of the dragonish burns into Kurzel’s “Macbeth.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2015
The illuminated sky of the final version is far less dragonish, with less of what Yeats called "the cold and rook-delighting heaven."
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2011
She and I both knew the dragonish thing to do.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Plato, who liked definite ideas, would like my cardboard dragon; for though the creature has few other artistic merits he is at least dragonish.
From Tremendous Trifles by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish | damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, Ever so black on it.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
