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Inlandish

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native. not-comparable, rare

    "Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]"

  2. 2
    Characteristic of one who is native or native-born; inexperienced, naïve, simplistic, unrefined. not-comparable, rare

    "A rap is literally inlandish (the product of barbarians born within the gates), a scatological scat-singing, the agonistic display of an uncomplicatedly emoting mammal."

  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to the interior of a country; of an inland nature or character. not-comparable

    "Seaside greens need not become more and more “inlandish” in character."

Etymology

In some senses, from inland + -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (“native, indigenous”), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (“foreign, extravagant”).

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