a person who advocates neither a conciliatory nor a belligerent national attitude
Derived forms
dawkish
adjective
Word origin
[1965–70; d(ove)1 + (h)awk1]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Finlandization, T cell, double-book, genetic engineering, isometric exercise