EXPRESSION ON somebody'S FACElooking like an owl and seeming serious and clever 像猫头鹰的;看上去严肃而聪明的
He was an owlish man, with little round glasses.
他戴着小小的圆眼镜,一副严肃而睿智的样子。
—owlishlyadverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
owlish• Thomas is five or six years younger than his brother, knocking seventy; he's tall, lean and a bit owlish.• He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep.• a friendlyfellow with owlish looks