kitish

English

Etymology

From kite +‎ -ish.

Adjective

kitish (comparative more kitish, superlative most kitish)

1. Resembling or pertaining to a kite (the bird of prey).
   • 1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance, volume 1, page 174:

     Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.