Similar words: howling, fowling, bowling, cowling, cowlick, scowling, growling, fishbowl. Meaning: ['aʊlɪʃ] 
adj. resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance.
adj. resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance. 
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1 He was an owlish figure, sitting in the corner of the library.
2 Her new glasses make her look rather owlish.
3 He was an owlish man, with little round glasses.
4 With his owlish face, it is easy to understand why he was called "The Professor".
5 Yes, so catlike, owlish, aggressive and passive,(www.Sentencedict.com) hostile and amicable by turns.
6 He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep.
7 He looks grey, owlish , bespectacled, and glum.
8 He's short and slight, with owlish glasses, and he seems as comfortable talking to women as to men.
9 Instead the duty fell to Gao, an owlish bureaucrat with a wry sense of humor.
10 Thomas is five or six years younger than his brother, knocking seventy; he's tall, lean and a bit owlish.
11 "Everyone gets a piece of the action, " says DiBello, who has deep-set owlish eyes and a Philadelphia-accented baritone.
12 Tall and severely thin, with bent shoulders, receding gray hair, and owlish glasses, he looked like a seminarian, which he had studied to be before turning to politics.
13 But it's not: it's oval, with a vulnerable wide forehead and owlish eyes.
14 Scan a photo of the inauguration and you can just make him out, standing a few rows back from the new president. He looks grey, owlish, bespectacled and glum.
More similar words: howling, fowling, bowling, cowling, cowlick, scowling, growling, fishbowl, polish, polisher, relish, mulish, polished, foolish, bullish, stylish, girlish, publisher, English, abolish, hellish, publish, purplish, ghoulish, published, polish off, devilish, churlish, ticklish, demolish.