Meaning of gunnish | Babel Free

Definitions

Gun-like.

rare

Examples

“Jane . . . who was she but mere decoration as he proved his gunnish manhood . . . ? Jane loved his guns.”

“Rafi's fingers knew about loading that gun the way you know⟳ the particular push⟳ and pull⟳ of your own⟳ house keys in the door. I shoved cold hands back in his pockets and touched the metal thing I had felt before. A bullet, of course. "All right." He held the gun toward me. A very gunnish gun, black with a long barrel. "This is a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum. I own⟳ quite a few firearms. This one I love⟳. Now, I'm going to fire, then you will."”

“It was a rifle. Sort⟳ of. It was a pistol. Sort⟳ of. It was in between a rifle and a handgun, but it didn't look⟳ quite like⟳ anything Clint Eastwood ever waved around. It had some long tanklike cylinder sticking out from the handle⟳ like⟳ an exhaust⟳ pipe, and as Gunnar's redrimmed eyes focused—sort⟳ of—on me, he was attaching some kind of canvas balloon to another pipe sticking up out of the barrel. The more familiar gunnish qualities of the thing were: It was long and black and steely ...”

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