New Zealandish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Zealand + -ish.
Adjective
[edit]New Zealandish (comparative more New Zealandish, superlative most New Zealandish)
- typical of New Zealand
- Don’t try to be more New Zealandish than the New Zealanders.
- (Can we date this quote?), Margaret Mahy, “A dissolving ghost”, in Damien Wilkins, editor, Great sporting moments, published 2005, page 352:
- I did indeed grow up with a fault line running through me, but that is a very New Zealandish feature when you consider that it is a country of earthquakes and volcanoes.