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Etymology
From Middle English londish, londiss, from Old English *lendisċ (attested in inlendisċ, ūtlendisċ, uplendisċ, etc.), from Proto-Germanic: *landiskaz. Equivalent to land + -ish.
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landish (comparative more landish, superlative most landish)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the land
1953, George Reid Millar, Siesta:[…] — a ferret, for example, with its fierce eyes plucked from the reefs of coral seas, and its affinity, albeit a landish affinity, with the bears of the polar spaces.
2003, Eyal Peretz, Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power:These chapters are chapter 24 — "the Advocate," the chapter that marks the transition from the "landish" part of the novel to its sea part, and the famous chapter 32, "Cetology."
2007, Aracelis Girmay, Teeth:So it turns out, she was a landish woman.
2009, Steven L. Jacobs, Zev Garber, Maven in Blue Jeans:It was already stated that any work of art should consider the haunting peril, that is lurking in a bushy ambush, threatening to metamorphose worthy, touching emotionality (produced by the work of art; poetry in this case) into a landish, kitschy, vulgar sentimentality.
2012, Sean Wallace, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk:“Not a name men would follow,” she said to me once. “A landish name.”
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