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zooish en · ADJ

Etymology

From zoo + -ish.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a zoo.
   • Or was it that the years had shaped these things to make them inseparable from her growing memory of them? The trunk was lined with cedar, yet everything smelled zooish, the very opposite of Hygeia. 1995, Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy, page 574:
2. (informal) crowded with people.

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