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Hawk is a synonym of bellicist.


As nouns the difference between hawk and bellicist

is that hawk is a diurnal predatory bird of the family accipitridae or hawk can be 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 or hawk can be an effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise while bellicist is adherent of bellicism, advocate of war, one who is war-centered or war-oriented.

As a verb hawk

is to hunt with a hawk or hawk can be to sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle or hawk can be (intransitive) to cough up something from one's throat.

As a adjective bellicist is

of or relating to bellicism, a bellicist, bellicists, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented.

hawk

English

(wikipedia hawk)

Etymology 1

(etyl) hauk, from (etyl) hafoc, from (etyl) 'falcon', (etyl) kobuz 'Eurasian Hobby').

Noun

(en noun)
  • A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae .
  • It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
  • (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions; a warmonger.
  • * 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.
    Antonyms
    * (politics) dove
    Derived terms
    * African harrier hawk * aspere-hawk * ball hawk * bay-winged hawk * bee hawk * between hawk and buzzard * bicoloured hawk * black hawk * broad-winged hawk * brown hawk * chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk * common black hawk * Cooper's 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 * * game hawk * gnat hawk, gnat-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 hawk, Harris's hawk * have eyes like a hawk * Hawaiian hawk * hawk-beaked * hawk-bell * hawkbill * hawk-cuckoo * hawk-dove game * hawk eagle * hawked * hawker * hawkery * hawk-eye * hawk-eyed * hawkfish * hawk fly, hawk-fly * hawk-headed parrot * hawkish * hawk-kite * hawk-like, hawklike * hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth * hawk nose, hawk-nose, hawknose * hawk-nosed * hawk-nut, hawknut * hawk of the fist * hawk of the lure * hawk of the soar * hawk owl, hawk-owl * hawk-parrot * hawk's beard, hawk's-beard, hawksbeard * 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 * 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 * man-of-war hawk * mangrove black 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 * spar-hawk, sparhawk * 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 * watch (someone or something) like a hawk * whistling hawk * white-breasted hawk * white-throated hawk * white hawk * zone-tailed hawk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
  • to hawk at flies
    (Dryden)
  • * Shakespeare
  • A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
    Derived terms
    * hawk after * hawk at * hawk for * hawking

    Etymology 2

    Uncertain origin; perhaps from (etyl) , or from a variant use of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms
    * mortarboard
    Derived terms
    * hawk boy, hawk-boy

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • His works were hawked in every street.
    Derived terms
    * hawked * hawking * hawky

    Etymology 4

    Onomatopoeia.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
  • Synonyms
    * (noun)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To cough up something from one's throat.
  • * 1751 , , I. xvi. 117
  • He hawked up, with incredible straining, the interjection ah!
  • * 1953 , , Viking Press, chapter 3:
  • He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.
  • (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
    * (noun)

    See also

    * Hawkshaw, hawkshaw * Hawkubite * winkle-hawk English onomatopoeias

    bellicist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Adherent of bellicism, advocate of war, one who is war-centered or war-oriented.
  • * The bellicist was sure to advocate an end to the policy of appeasement.
  • * 1912: Norman Angell, Peace Theories and the Balkan War , p. 19
  • Or, if you deem that that word connotes non-resistance, though to the immense bulk of Pacifists it does not, you would be an anti-Bellicist , to use a dreadful word coined by M. Emile Faguet in the discussion of this matter.'' [Refers to the book: Émile Faguet, ''Le Pacifisme (French), 1908.]
  • * 1919: in The Living Age , vol. 303, Oct-Dec 1919, p. 173
  • As for what are called ‘war books,’ whether written from the pacifist or bellicist point of view, more or less brilliant reporting with emphatic or cynical anecdotes, surely there has been enough of them in the United States as well as in France and in England.
  • * 1942: in Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs , vol. 11, No. 1, Jan 1942, p. 220-221
  • It may be that this standard definition errs, in representing every state structure as essentially based on conflict: it involves, as the writer pointed out in an address delivered long ago in 1915, a “bellicist''' theory of state structure.” [...] It may be well, therefore, to discard the “'''bellicist ” idea of a state essentially based on conflict and involving a superior body which forcibly imposes its will on the mass. [Refers to the paper: Dr. Thomas Baty, "The Bellicist Theory of State Structure", 1915.]
  • * 2008: David P. Barash & Charles P. Webel, Peace and Conflict Studies , p. 31
  • British historian Michael Howard introduced the term ''bellicist to refer to cultures “almost universal in the past, far from extinct in our own day, in which the setting of contentious issues by armed conflict is regarded as natural, inevitable and right.”

    Synonyms

    * hawk * militarist * warmonger * warnik

    Antonyms

    * anti-bellicist * dove * pacifist * peacenik

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to bellicism, a bellicist, bellicists, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented.
  • Synonyms

    * bellicistic * hawkish * militarist * militaristic * warmonger * warmongering

    Antonyms

    * anti-bellicist * anti-bellicistic * dovish * pacifist * pacifistic