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New Zealandish

New Zealandish adjective: typical of New Zealand.

Adjective

New Zealandish (comparative more New Zealandish, superlative most New Zealandish)

  1. typical of New Zealand
    • Don’t try to be more New Zealandish than the New Zealanders.
    • I did indeed grow up with a fault line running through me, but that is a very New Zealandish feature when you consider that it is a country of earthquakes and volcanoes.(Can we date this quote?), Margaret Mahy, “A dissolving ghost”, in Damien Wilkins, editor, Great sporting moments, published 2005, page 352

Forms of New Zealandish

comparativemore New Zealandish
superlativemost New Zealandish

Origin of New Zealandish

From New Zealand + -ish.

Questions about New Zealandish

What does New Zealandish mean?
New Zealandish means typical of New Zealand.
What part of speech is New Zealandish?
New Zealandish is an adjective.

Words near New Zealandish in the dictionary

  1. New Zealand yams
  2. New Zealander
  3. New Zealanders
  4. New Zealandese
  5. New Zealandic
  6. New Zealandish
  7. New Zealandism
  8. New Zealandisms
  9. New Zealandize
  10. New Zealandress
  11. New Zealandresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: New Zealandish (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.

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