Englishy

English

Etymology

From English +‎ -y.

Adjective

Englishy (comparative more Englishy, superlative most Englishy)

1. Somewhat English.
   • 1896, John Horne, A Canny Countryside:

     "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, adopting an Englishy voice, "this is not the limit of their benevolence."

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday>passage¡Father wanted his place to look exactly like England. He planted cowslips and primroses and hawthorn hedges and all the Englishy flowers. He had stiles and meadows and took away all the wild Canadian-ness and made it as meek and English as he could.”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 25, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎^[1], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 165:

     I didn't think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an Englishy accent.

   • 2001, Tim Parks, Juggling the Stars:

     In the end he settled for a very faint and tightly checked greeny shirt to go with his dark tweed jacket (an Englishy touch, along with the college tie […]