landish

English

Etymology

From Middle English londish, londiss, from Old English *lendisċ (attested in inlendisċ, ūtlendisċ, uplendisċ, etc.), from Proto-Germanic: *landiskaz. Equivalent to land +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ændɪʃ

Adjective

landish (comparative more landish, superlative most landish)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the land
   • 1953, George Reid Millar, Siesta:

     […] — a ferret, for example, with its fierce eyes plucked from the reefs of coral seas, and its affinity, albeit a landish affinity, with the bears of the polar spaces.

   • 2003, Eyal Peretz, Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power:

     These chapters are chapter 24 — "the Advocate," the chapter that marks the transition from the "landish" part of the novel to its sea part, and the famous chapter 32, "Cetology."

   • 2007, Aracelis Girmay, Teeth:

     So it turns out, she was a landish woman.

   • 2009, Steven L. Jacobs, Zev Garber, Maven in Blue Jeans:

     It was already stated that any work of art should consider the haunting peril, that is lurking in a bushy ambush, threatening to metamorphose worthy, touching emotionality (produced by the work of art; poetry in this case) into a landish, kitschy, vulgar sentimentality.

   • 2012, Sean Wallace, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk:

     “Not a name men would follow,” she said to me once. “A landish name.”

Related terms

• inlandish
• outlandish
• uplandish

Anagrams

• Dahlins, Hilands