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Greekish

Greekish adjective: resembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.

Adjective

Greekish (comparative more Greekish, superlative most Greekish)

  1. Resembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.
    • Kitty Garman, daughter of Kathleen Garman—Lorna Wishart's sister—and Jacob Epstein, became his Greekish muse in a series of portraits culminating in Girl With Roses, a masterpiece of wide-eyed apprehension.2002 May 18, William Feaver, “Seeing through the skin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    Greeky
  2. (obsolete) Greek, Grecian.
    • Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • Look better on this virgin, and consider / This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing / In a Greekish dress.1624, Philip Massinger, The Bondman

Synonyms of Greekish

Forms of Greekish

comparativemore Greekish
superlativemost Greekish

Origin of Greekish

From Middle English grekissh, from Old English Grēcisc, from Grēcas (“the Greeks”) + -isc (“-ish”). By surface analysis, Greek + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Greekesque.

Words formed from Greekish

Questions about Greekish

What does Greekish mean?
Greekish means resembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.
What part of speech is Greekish?
Greekish is an adjective.

Words near Greekish in the dictionary

  1. greeking
  2. greeking it
  3. Greekise
  4. Greekised
  5. Greekises
  6. Greekish
  7. Greekishness
  8. Greekising
  9. Greekism
  10. Greekisms
  11. Greekist

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