Word.ws English Dictionary

gendarmish

gendarmish adjective: characteristic of a gendarme or police officer.

Adjective

gendarmish (comparative more gendarmish, superlative most gendarmish)

  1. Characteristic of a gendarme or police officer.
    • But Pat Bramble, the small and dainty Pat, snatched herself loose from her policeman, lowered her head, and rammed him agonizingly in the gendarmish belly.1933, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Ann Vickers, page 144
    • a cop in civilian clothes who blinked with a soft drizzling sound, the only sign of life on his mummy’s face, pale lips, long nose, high cheekbones, big ears, and fangs gilded with gendarmish decorations, the same as his hands, which were covered with rings,1973, Miguel Asturias, chapter 30, in Gregory Rabassa, transl., The Eyes of the Interred, page 484

Forms of gendarmish

comparativemore gendarmish
superlativemost gendarmish

Origin of gendarmish

From gendarme + -ish

Questions about gendarmish

What does gendarmish mean?
Gendarmish means characteristic of a gendarme or police officer.
What part of speech is gendarmish?
Gendarmish is an adjective.

Words near gendarmish in the dictionary

  1. gendarme
  2. gendarmerie
  3. gendarmeries
  4. gendarmery
  5. gendarmes
  6. gendarmish
  7. gendarussa
  8. Gende
  9. Gendell
  10. Gendelman
  11. gender

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gendarmish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gendarmish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gendarmish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.