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folklorish en · ADJ

Etymology

From folklore + -ish.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Being similar to or having the quality of folklore.
   • The reporting in the British press at the time cast the local farmers' dismemberment of the wreckage as a kind of folklorish eucharist whereby a peasantry wielding rustic knives divided the body of a fallen god. 2003, Journal of Narrative Theory: JNT. - Volume 33
   • Their mythology was a series of inconsequential tales, centring around folklorish birds with human or supernatural powers and clearly more related to the life of land people than to that of the Manus. 2016 (original 1956), Margaret Mead, New Lives for Old

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