Saxonish

adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons.

    "Thus, the Germans of the South, a small and compact body, coming mainly, as they do, from the centre and South, or less Saxonish and more Latinised sections of the Tuton country, are hardly to be classed with the intensely Saxonish hordes who pass in the North under the generic, odium-charged, name of Dutchmen, and who at home were, as those they have left behind them are—the Yankees of Europe."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Saxon; the language of the ancient Saxons.

    "For Caire in British & Cestre in Saxonish are one thing, & doo signifie in English a fort, towre, or castell."

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"Thus, the Germans of the South, a small and compact body, coming mainly, as they do, from the centre and South, or less Saxonish and more Latinised sections of the Tuton country, are hardly to be classed with the intensely Saxonish hordes who pass in the North under the generic, odium-charged, name of Dutchmen, and who at home were, as those they have left behind them are—the Yankees of Europe."

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