Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or having the characteristics of
Greek or theGreeks
Etymologies
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Examples
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The music is kind of Greekish with that instrument that drives me nuts—bouzouki? zither?
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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The music is kind of Greekish with that instrument that drives me nuts—bouzouki? zither?
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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The music is kind of Greekish with that instrument that drives me nuts—bouzouki? zither?
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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Yes, both originally had their Greekish digraphs, economy up through the 18th century and ecology through most of the 19th; the first OED citations for the latter are:
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Through ranks of Greekish youth, and I have seen thee,
Troilus and Cressida 2004
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Coptic was Egyptian with a Greekish alphabet and koine loanwords.
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Edgar hauing lost his knight returned, and being honoured with many rewards both by the Greekish and by the Germaine Emperour
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He also was the first man that waged warre against the Polonians and the Liuonians: against Polonia he pretended a quarell alleaging that his daughter Helena (whome hee had married vnto Alexander the great Duke of Lithuania, which was afterward king of Polonia) was euil intreated, and was withdrawen from the Greekish religion vnto the ceremonies of the Church of Rome.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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These Greekish Friers are very continent and chast, and surely I haue seldome seen (which I haue well noted) any of them fat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The screen came up with a long list of Greekish and Latinate names, and the desk comm whistled stridently, both at the same moment.
Doctor’s Orders Diane Duane 2000
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