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Englishable en · ADJ

Etymology

From English + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be translated into or expressed in English.
   • But this isn't an askable question. It isn't Englishable. 1997, Glimmer Train - Issues 21-24, page 62:
   • The term is gemes, and the vehicle it provides for metaphoring is Englishable as 'pinching a plump baby in affection'. 1989, Alton L. Becker, Writing on the tongue, page 5:
   • Only two pages of the Pushkin are given to the lyric, and these to such relatively Englishable items as a ballad ("The Upas Tree") and the "Exegi Monumentum," which has had its hundreds of English predecessors. 1945, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 7:

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