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Greekish en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English grekissh, from Old English Grēcisc, from Grēcas (“the Greeks”) + -isc (“-ish”). By surface analysis, Greek + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Greekesque.

Meanings

1. Resembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.
   • Kitty Garman, daughter of Kathleen Garman—Lorna Wishart's sister—and Jacob Epstein, became his Greekish muse in a series of portraits culminating in Girl With Roses, a masterpiece of wide-eyed apprehension. 2002 May 18, William Feaver, “Seeing through the skin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
2. (obsolete) Greek, Grecian.
   • Look better on this virgin, and consider / This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing / In a Greekish dress. 1624, Philip Massinger, The Bondman:
   • Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member. c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

Forms

Deriveds

Greekishness

Synonyms

Greeky