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Englishy en · ADJ

Etymology

From English + -y.

Meanings

1. Somewhat English.
   • I didn't think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an Englishy accent. 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 25, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 165:
   • In the end he settled for a very faint and tightly checked greeny shirt to go with his dark tweed jacket (an Englishy touch, along with the college tie […] 2001, Tim Parks, Juggling the Stars:
   • "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, adopting an Englishy voice, "this is not the limit of their benevolence." 1896, John Horne, A Canny Countryside:

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