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landish en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English londish, londiss, from Old English *lendisċ (attested in inlendisċ, ūtlendisċ, uplendisċ, etc.), from Proto-Germanic: *landiskaz. Equivalent to land + -ish.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the land
   • “Not a name men would follow,” she said to me once. “A landish name.” 2012, Sean Wallace, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk:
   • […] — a ferret, for example, with its fierce eyes plucked from the reefs of coral seas, and its affinity, albeit a landish affinity, with the bears of the polar spaces. 1953, George Reid Millar, Siesta:
   • It was already stated that any work of art should consider the haunting peril, that is lurking in a bushy ambush, threatening to metamorphose worthy, touching emotionality (produced by the work of art; poetry in this case) into a landish, kitschy, vulgar sentimentality. 2009, Steven L. Jacobs, Zev Garber, Maven in Blue Jeans:
   • These chapters are chapter 24 — "the Advocate," the chapter that marks the transition from the "landish" part of the novel to its sea part, and the famous chapter 32, "Cetology." 2003, Eyal Peretz, Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power:
   • So it turns out, she was a landish woman. 2007, Aracelis Girmay, Teeth:

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Relateds

outlandish · uplandish · inlandish