Meaning of owly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
2. In a bad mood; cranky.
   Atlantic-Canada
3. Seeing poorly.
4. Silly.
   Atlantic-Canada

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Examples

“In the picture Miss Elizabeth showed me the croc had little piggy eyes, not huge owly ones.”

“I had no right to be owly and disagreeable with Willie.”

“Perhaps nice isn't the best word for him, but he certainly was an unusually imposing and fluffy-haired and fierce-looking brute of a tarantula. He had rather an owly way about him, as if he had come out from his hole too early and was dazed and half-blinded by the light.”

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