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Chinese-ish en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (informal) Somewhat Chinese.
    • Twinky, yeah... I see traces of ketchup in quite a few Chinese-ish recipes. 2001 March 14, Jack B, “Soy Sauce Question”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), retrieved 12 Sep 2022:
    • Thanks but this is a real problem. The chineseish text (which we've since learned is not chinese) appears to be from some problem with the ATI Mach64 X windows server. Anybody with a solution, please respond. 1996 March 25, Jeff Templon, “Netscape spontaneously changes font to Chinese or Somesuch”, in comp.os.linux.x (Usenet), retrieved 12 Sep 2022:

Forms

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most Chinese-ish Degree=Sup lexicographic
Chineseish alternative lexicographic
more Chinese-ish Degree=Cmp lexicographic