Fishing Hawk

Word FISHING HAWK
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(n, middle and old english) when the coiffure of a young man (preferably of jewish descent and who has thick wavy hair) is cut on the sides, giving the impression of a cross between the top fin of a fish and a mohican-style hair cut, hence the compound "fish-hawk." can be used to describe the hair do or, more often, the person wearing the hair do. Urban Dictionary

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Europe, the wagtails not only chase the birds of prey which might be dangerous to them, but they chase also the fishing-hawk ❋ Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1881)

The kites will also give chase to the swift fishing-hawk, and rob it of the fish it has captured; but no one ever saw the kites fighting together for the possession of the prey so stolen. ❋ Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1881)

As at San Francisco, there is an abundance of birds hovering constantly about the harbor of Nagasaki, not sea-gulls, but a brown fishing-hawk, which here seems to take the place of the gull, swooping down upon its finny prey after the same fashion, and uttering a wild, shrill cry when doing so. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)

THE last of this race I shall mention is the falco piscatorius, or fishing-hawk: this is a large bird, of high and rapid flight; his wings are very long and pointed, and he spreads a vast sail, in proportion to the volume of his body. ❋ Unknown (1823)

Exclusive of the true Osprey (F.lco Haliætus), which is rather a larger fishing-hawk than an eagle, there are two kinds, viz. -- the GOLDEN EAGLE (F. Chrysaëtos), and the WHITE-TAILED or ❋ John Wilson (1819)

1 The herons (Ardea herodias), the fishing-hawk (Pandion haliaëtos carolinensis), and the blue-crested king fisher (Ceryle alcyon) are, as Clark states, not peculiar to the Pacific coast. — ❋ Unknown (1904)

as an adjective: "did you see his new [haircut]? it's totally a [fish-hawk]" as a nickname: "yo, fish-hawk, do you want to study french and drink tonight?" also appropriate: ([yelled]) "[FISH-HAWK]!" (from across a long distance) ❋ Dbbd (2004)

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