Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a stork or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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stork +‎ -like

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Examples

  • At the word “torture,” the room buzzed with furious whispers, and Henry caught the name Dimit Yascherov as it passed between Lord Ewing and the storklike gentleman to his right.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • At the word “torture,” the room buzzed with furious whispers, and Henry caught the name Dimit Yascherov as it passed between Lord Ewing and the storklike gentleman to his right.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • Lithe bodies were tested by extreme stretches in different directions, or by the challenge of unbalancing moves that must be made while standing storklike on one bare foot -- sometimes four bodies at once, at four corners of a square.

    What Merce Cunningham Assembled at an Old Ford Plant 2008

  • The book opens with a storklike delivery of a baby.

    Leading A Double Life 2007

  • She stood there, totally embarrassed and laughing, and everyone who watched laughed too, laughed at this pale storklike creature with heavy makeup standing in a garbage can holding a banana.

    High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006

  • There was a group of several pink vaguely storklike birds.

    Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

  • The first was a gawkishly tall young man with dark hair and a storklike nose, followed by a frail young boy leaning sideways in a wheelchair, pushed by an older woman I assumed was his mother.

    Land of the Blind Walter, Jess, 1969- 2003

  • Others grew in the legs, and to see them you would have said they had been cranes, or the reddish-long-billed-storklike-scrank-legged sea-fowls called flamans, or else men walking upon stilts or scatches.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Others grew in the legs, and to see them you would have said they had been cranes, or the reddish-long-billed-storklike-scrank-legged sea-fowls called flamans, or else men walking upon stilts or scatches.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Scrawny and storklike as he looked, he was a good eight inches taller than I, and outweighed me by at least thirty pounds.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

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