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Quebeckish

Quebeckish adjective: of, pertaining to, or typical of Quebec.

Adjective

Quebeckish (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, rare) Of, pertaining to, or typical of Quebec.
    • There are times when the French-Canadians in the other provinces complain that the network image is too Quebeckish, and much more on television than on radio.1970, Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Mass Media
    • We can say that those years saw the birth of a freewheeling discussion of education, religion, and the traditional interpretation of national history. Inevitably, the critics came to attack Quebec Catholicism and those who had narrowed it and made it peculiarly “Quebeckish.”1978, Marcel Rioux, Quebec in Question, page 68

Forms of Quebeckish

alternative formQuebecish
alternative formQuebequish

Origin of Quebeckish

From Quebec + -ish. Compare English Quebecois.

Questions about Quebeckish

What does Quebeckish mean?
Quebeckish means of, pertaining to, or typical of Quebec.
What part of speech is Quebeckish?
Quebeckish is an adjective.

Words near Quebeckish in the dictionary

  1. Quebecistan
  2. Quebecker
  3. Quebeckers
  4. Quebeckian
  5. Quebeckians
  6. Quebeckish
  7. Quebecois
  8. Quebecois-ness
  9. Quebecoise
  10. Quebecoises
  11. Quebecoisness

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