Saxonish

Saxonish adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons.

Adjective

Saxonish (comparative more Saxonish, superlative most Saxonish)

Pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons.
- Thus, the Germans of the South, a small and compact body, coming mainly, as they do, from the centre and South, or less Saxonish and more Latinised sections of the Tuton country, are hardly to be classed with the intensely Saxonish hordes who pass in the North under the generic, odium-charged, name...1863 November & December, Dr. Stuart, “The Anglo-Saxon Mania”, in The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 37, number 11 & 12, page 681
- A decent fellow, although somewhat Saxonish, as the name indicates.1979, Karl Marx, Saul Kussiel Padover, The letters of Karl Marx, page 226

Saxonish

Saxon; the language of the ancient Saxons.
- For Caire in British & Cestre in Saxonish are one thing, & doo signifie in English a fort, towre, or castell.1808, “Edward the Sixt. (1549)”, in Raphael Holinshed, editor, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland - Volume 3, page 928
- And as for all authors of Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, British, Saxonish, Welsh, English, or Scottish, touchin in any wise the understanding of our antiquities, he had so fully read and applied them that they were in a manner graffed in him as of nature.1874, Montagu Burrows, Worthies of All Souls

comparative	more Saxonish
superlative	most Saxonish

What does Saxonish mean?: Saxonish means pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons.
What part of speech is Saxonish?: Saxonish can be an adjective or a proper noun.

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