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Maineish

Maineish adjective: resembling or characteristic of the U.S. state of Maine or its people.

Adjective

Maineish (comparative more Maineish, superlative most Maineish)

  1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of the U.S. state of Maine or its people.
    • I hope that fire from heaven consumes your Maineish haven, and you have to come back to New York, that awful place.1985, Randall Jarrell, Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
    Synonyms:
    Mainelike

Synonyms of Maineish

Forms of Maineish

comparativemore Maineish
superlativemost Maineish

Origin of Maineish

From Maine + -ish.

Questions about Maineish

What does Maineish mean?
Maineish means resembling or characteristic of the U.S. state of Maine or its people.
What part of speech is Maineish?
Maineish is an adjective.

Words near Maineish in the dictionary

  1. Maine lobsters
  2. Maine-et-Loire
  3. Maine-iac
  4. Maine-iacs
  5. mained
  6. Maineish
  7. Mainelike
  8. Mainella
  9. Mainely
  10. mainer
  11. mainers

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