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ethnicky

ethnicky adjective: having an ethnic appearance or atmosphere.

Adjective

ethnicky (comparative more ethnicky, superlative most ethnicky)

  1. (colloquial) Having an ethnic appearance or atmosphere.
    • For souvenirs – mostly outright tack and ethnicky textiles – try your bargaining skills at the shops and stalls on Binjiang Luand Zhengyang Jie, or the nightly street market spreading for about a block either side of Shanhu Bridge along Zhongshan Lu.2014, David Leffman, The Rough Guide to China

Forms of ethnicky

comparativemore ethnicky
superlativemost ethnicky

Origin of ethnicky

From ethnic + -y.

Questions about ethnicky

What does ethnicky mean?
Ethnicky means having an ethnic appearance or atmosphere.
What part of speech is ethnicky?
Ethnicky is an adjective.

Words near ethnicky in the dictionary

  1. ethnicized
  2. ethnicizes
  3. ethnicizing
  4. ethnick
  5. ethnicks
  6. ethnicky
  7. ethnicness
  8. ethnicon
  9. ethnics
  10. ethnie
  11. ethnies

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