different between goshawk vs hawk

English

Etymology

From Middle English goshauk, from Old English g?shafoc (“goose hawk”), from g?s (“goose”) and hafoc (“hawk”). Compare also Old Norse gáshaukr and Late Middle English gosling. The bird gets its name from the fact that the birds of the species are hawks that were alleged to prey on geese.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???sh??k/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???sh?k/
• Hyphenation: gos?hawk

Noun

goshawk (plural goshawks)

1. Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.

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Further reading

• goshawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hôk, IPA^(key): /h??k/
• (US) enPR: hôk, IPA^(key): /h?k/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: häk, IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophone: hock (accents with cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, 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 *kopu?os (compare Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ?????? (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)), perhaps ultimately derived from *keh?p- (“seize”).

Noun

hawk (plural hawks)

1. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.

2. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
3. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
4. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. [from 1962]

   Synonyms: warmonger, war hawk

   Antonym: dove

   • 1962, McGeorge Bundy[1]:

     Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves.

   • 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.

   • 2019, "The World in 2020", The Economist:

     President Donald Trump has spent years playing the role of a China hawk.

5. (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

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Related terms

• creshawk
• goshawk
• sparhawk

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)

1. (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
2. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.

   • But whether upward to the moon they go, Or dream the winter out in caves below, Or hawk at flies elsewhere

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Derived terms

• hawk after
• hawk at
• hawk for
• hawker
• hawking

Etymology 2

Uncertain origin; perhaps from Middle English hache (“battle-axe”), or from a variant use of the above.

Noun

hawk (plural hawks)

1. 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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Etymology 3

Back-formation from hawker.

Verb

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

1. (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.

   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.

     His works were hawked in every street.

Derived terms

• hawked
• hawkery
• hawking
• hawky

Related terms

• hawker

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Etymology 4

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

hawk (plural hawks)

1. A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.

Synonyms

• hawking (noun)

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Verb

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

2. (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, 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.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

Derived terms

• hawking (noun)

Translations

See also

• Hawkshaw, hawkshaw
• Hawkubite
• winkle-hawk

Further reading

• hawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Manx

Noun

hawk

1. Lenited form of shawk.