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zooish

zooish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a zoo.

Adjective

zooish (comparative more zooish, superlative most zooish)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a zoo.
    • Or was it that the years had shaped these things to make them inseparable from her growing memory of them? The trunk was lined with cedar, yet everything smelled zooish, the very opposite of Hygeia.1995, Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy, page 574
  2. (informal) crowded with people.

Forms of zooish

comparativemore zooish
superlativemost zooish

Origin of zooish

From zoo + -ish.

Questions about zooish

What does zooish mean?
Zooish means resembling or characteristic of a zoo.
What part of speech is zooish?
Zooish is an adjective.

Words near zooish in the dictionary

  1. zooidiophilous
  2. zooidogamous
  3. zooids
  4. zooier
  5. zooiest
  6. zooish
  7. zook
  8. zooked
  9. zookeep
  10. zookeeper
  11. zookeepers

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