Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
British .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Britishness.
Examples
-
His idea of 'Britishness' is one which comes shod with jackboots and armed with a whip to dragoon us all into line.
Archive 2008-11-30 2008
-
His idea of 'Britishness' is one which comes shod with jackboots and armed with a whip to dragoon us all into line.
-
The last people I want telling me to celebrate my "Britishness" is this Labour government.
Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008
-
The imposed Britishness is not a deal-breaker; there's more than enough in Wallander to keep a late-season audience entertained, but it is a drawback.
-
The worse thing about Britishness is that we are being had for mugs by our own government, the EU, immigrants and our own underclass.
Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008
-
Hi, Walt, I suspect the Britishness is more colloquial here than wry.
-
You see, Britishness is not about having pasty-white skin or being Anglican or even about having bad teeth.
-
A Labour prime minister in Gordon Brown who seems to think that Britishness is about telling people to plant flags on their lawn, and a Conservative party that understands the deepest instincts of our great nation.
-
Meanwhile, we have lost our confidence in Britishness as something stable or even desirable.
January 2005 2005
-
Meanwhile, we have lost our confidence in Britishness as something stable or even desirable.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.