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Amerindish

Amerindish adjective: of or pertaining to Native American people.

Adjective

Amerindish (comparative more Amerindish, superlative most Amerindish)

  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to Native American people.
    • I was hanging down in Georgetown tonight, trying to keep my friend George the Georgian surgeon from attacking women, when the vaguely Amerindish guy who spends most of his time in there scoring ballets walks over from across the room to ask me if I'd like to read a short story.1994, Weihnachtsfrosch, talk.bizarre (Usenet)
    • Formed from a federation of different colonies (the depressed Maritimes, French Quebec, self-centred Ontario, pseudo-Texan Prairies, laid-back B.C., and Amerindish north) who /didn't/ revolt, in self-defense against the union of colonies who did, almost the only thing keeping it together is the...2002, DataPacRat, rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)

Forms of Amerindish

comparativemore Amerindish
superlativemost Amerindish

Origin of Amerindish

From Amerind + -ish.

Questions about Amerindish

What does Amerindish mean?
Amerindish means of or pertaining to Native American people.
What part of speech is Amerindish?
Amerindish is an adjective.

Words near Amerindish in the dictionary

  1. Amerindianizing
  2. Amerindianness
  3. Amerindians
  4. Amerindic
  5. Amerindigenous
  6. Amerindish
  7. Amerinds
  8. Amerine
  9. Amerines
  10. ameristic
  11. Ameritard

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