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Africanish

Africanish adjective: somewhat African.

Adjective

Africanish (comparative more Africanish, superlative most Africanish)

  1. Somewhat African.
    • She might look out of the upstairs window to the convoluted twist of bramble and Africanish sumac beyond the squared, mowed lawn, but her mind does not travel into it. Where the manicured, defined lawn ends her curiosity seems to stop.1997, Alice Hoffman, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997, page 370
    • The discussion of the literature that is considered in this paper as Africanish and not African, goes a long way to help us answer the question at hand. The observation made on Africanish Literature imply what then is African Literature.2000, MJEAS, volume 3, page 31

Forms of Africanish

comparativemore Africanish
superlativemost Africanish

Origin of Africanish

Inherited from Old English Africanisc. By surface analysis, African + -ish.

Questions about Africanish

What does Africanish mean?
Africanish means somewhat African.
What part of speech is Africanish?
Africanish is an adjective.

Words near Africanish in the dictionary

  1. Africanis
  2. Africanisation
  3. Africanise
  4. Africanised
  5. Africanises
  6. Africanish
  7. Africanising
  8. Africanism
  9. Africanisms
  10. Africanist
  11. Africanist dance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Africanish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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