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English
Etymology
From kern + -ish, from kern (“a boor”).
Adjective
kernish (comparative more kernish, superlative most kernish)
- (obsolete) clownish; boorish
1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, pages 218–219:Ireland […] was once the conqueſt of one ſingle Earl with his private forces, and the ſmall aſſiſtance of a petty Kerniſh Prince,
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