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English
Etymology
From lake + -ish.
Adjective
lakish (comparative more lakish, superlative most lakish)
- (rare) Wet; moist.
1594, Robert Greene, The Historie of Orlando Furioso, London: Cuthbert Burbie:I know he knowes that watrie lakish hill
1611, Anthony Munday, “A breefe discourse of the Originall of the Venetians”, in A Briefe Chronicle, of the Successe of Times, from the Creation of the World, to this Instant, London, pages 266–267:These men first gouerned the Citty in her Nonage, and some are of the minde, that they were the first Authors of the Padnaus slight, and their retyrement to the Lakish or marshie Isles, as also of their first building there.
- (literature) Characteristic of the Lake poets.
1812 November, James, Horace Smith, “Rejected Addresses”, in The Edinburgh Review, page 445:We have next ‘Playhouse Musings,’ by Mr Coleridge—a piece which is unquestionably Lakish—though we cannot say that we recognize in it any of the peculiar traits of that powerful and misdirected genius whose name it has borrowed.
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