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bunkerish

bunkerish adjective: resembling or reminiscent of a bunker.

Adjective

bunkerish (comparative more bunkerish, superlative most bunkerish)

  1. Resembling or reminiscent of a bunker.
    • Hole number one is a rather ordinary dogleg right; a high, bunkerish ridge on the right-hand side of the fairway is the sole unusual feature, but once over this the fairway rolls directly up into the green.1988 October 7, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader
    • Nor did the Last Days of Trudeau and his bunkerish behaviour help.1999, Larry Zolf, Zolf, →ISBN, page 112

Synonyms of bunkerish

Forms of bunkerish

comparativemore bunkerish
superlativemost bunkerish

Origin of bunkerish

From bunker + -ish. Piecewise doublet of bunkeresque.

Phrases with bunkerish

Questions about bunkerish

What does bunkerish mean?
Bunkerish means resembling or reminiscent of a bunker.
What part of speech is bunkerish?
Bunkerish is an adjective.

Words near bunkerish in the dictionary

  1. bunkeresque
  2. bunkering
  3. bunkering out
  4. bunkering up
  5. bunkerings
  6. bunkerish
  7. bunkerless
  8. bunkerlike
  9. bunkerman
  10. bunkermate
  11. bunkermates

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