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farmish

farmish adjective: indicative or suggestive of a farm; characteristically farmlike.

Adjective

farmish (comparative more farmish, superlative most farmish)

  1. Indicative or suggestive of a farm; characteristically farmlike
    • Then a tall dark man got up and came to the podium. He looked pretty normal to me, except that his clothes looked new and like they'd never seen hours of weeding between the rows. But even our own farmish collective would manage decent clothes for someone we sent out to speak. We work hard and...1997, Warren Lapine, Stephen Pagel, Absolute Magnitude
    • "Yep. I didn't know he'd only been here for four years. Does he ever talk about where he was before that?" "Not really, but some of his expressions are kind of...farmish."2014, Elaine Orr, Ground to a Halt

Forms of farmish

comparativemore farmish
superlativemost farmish

Origin of farmish

From farm + -ish.

Questions about farmish

What does farmish mean?
Farmish means indicative or suggestive of a farm; characteristically farmlike.
What part of speech is farmish?
Farmish is an adjective.

Words near farmish in the dictionary

  1. farmings
  2. Farmington
  3. Farmington Falls
  4. Farmington Hills
  5. Farmingville
  6. farmish
  7. farmla
  8. farmland
  9. farmlands
  10. farmless
  11. farmlessness

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