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Oxfordish

Oxfordish adjective: resembling or characteristic of the English city of Oxford.

Adjective

Oxfordish (comparative more Oxfordish, superlative most Oxfordish)

  1. (UK, colloquial) Resembling or characteristic of the English city of Oxford.

Proper noun

Oxfordish

  1. (UK, colloquial, dated) The slang spoken at the University of Oxford.
    • "[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long."
      "Last Long?"
      "Hem! last protracted vacation."1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash

Forms of Oxfordish

comparativemore Oxfordish
superlativemost Oxfordish

Origin of Oxfordish

From Oxford + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Oxfordesque.

Questions about Oxfordish

What does Oxfordish mean?
Oxfordish means resembling or characteristic of the English city of Oxford.
What part of speech is Oxfordish?
Oxfordish can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Oxfordish in the dictionary

  1. Oxford ties
  2. Oxfordesque
  3. Oxfordian
  4. Oxfordianism
  5. Oxfordians
  6. Oxfordish
  7. Oxfordism
  8. Oxfordist
  9. Oxfordists
  10. oxfords
  11. Oxfordshire

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