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hoodlumish

hoodlumish adjective: characteristic of hoodlums.

Adjective

hoodlumish (comparative more hoodlumish, superlative most hoodlumish)

  1. Characteristic of hoodlums.
    • A hoodlumish mob of Democrats attacked a rival speaker at Smithfield, and the Republican chairman telegraphed Governor Russell for troops, a request with which he complied.1979, H. Leon Prather, Resurgent Politics and Educational Progressivism in the New South, page 194

Forms of hoodlumish

comparativemore hoodlumish
superlativemost hoodlumish

Origin of hoodlumish

From hoodlum + -ish.

Questions about hoodlumish

What does hoodlumish mean?
Hoodlumish means characteristic of hoodlums.
What part of speech is hoodlumish?
Hoodlumish is an adjective.

Words near hoodlumish in the dictionary

  1. hoodla
  2. hoodless
  3. hoodlike
  4. hoodline
  5. hoodlum
  6. hoodlumish
  7. hoodlumism
  8. hoodlumisms
  9. hoodlumize
  10. hoodlumized
  11. hoodlumizes

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