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captainish

captainish adjective: typical or characteristic of a captain.

Adjective

captainish (comparative more captainish, superlative most captainish)

  1. Typical or characteristic of a captain
    • While Rabbit is described by Milne as being excessively “captainish” or bossy, he also receives warm praise, he has frequent visits from Pooh.2012, Daniel Eckstein, The Couple’S Match Book

Forms of captainish

comparativemore captainish
superlativemost captainish

Origin of captainish

From captain + -ish.

Questions about captainish

What does captainish mean?
Captainish means typical or characteristic of a captain.
What part of speech is captainish?
Captainish is an adjective.

Words near captainish in the dictionary

  1. captained
  2. captaines
  3. captainess
  4. captainesses
  5. captaining
  6. captainish
  7. captainless
  8. captainlike
  9. captainly
  10. captainries
  11. captainry

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