owlishly

1. 1.

   in an owlish manner

   “the gentle-looking barrister peered owlishly around him”

Questions about owlishly

What does owlishly mean?

owlishly means "in an owlish manner".

How many syllables are in owlishly?

owlishly has 3 syllables and divides as ow-lish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is owlishly a common word?

owlishly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.