Africanish
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Somewhat African.
"She might look out of the upstairs window to the convoluted twist of bramble and Africanish sumac beyond the squared, mowed lawn, but her mind does not travel into it. Where the manicured, defined lawn ends her curiosity seems to stop."
Example
More examples"She might look out of the upstairs window to the convoluted twist of bramble and Africanish sumac beyond the squared, mowed lawn, but her mind does not travel into it. Where the manicured, defined lawn ends her curiosity seems to stop."
Etymology
Inherited from Old English Africanisc. By surface analysis, African + -ish.
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