Meanings
comparative more Africanish · superlative most Africanish
- Somewhat African.
Who is this woman who became such an iconic sex symbol? Braga describes herself: “I am a typical Brazilian. I have a typical Brazilian bottom, typical Brazilian colouring, even a bit Africanish, and typical Brazilian style” [...]
2015, Severino J. Albuquerque, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, Performing Brazil2 more examples
She might look out of the upstairs window to the convoluted twist of bramble and Africanish sumac beyond the squared, mowed lawn, but her mind does not travel into it. Where the manicured, defined lawn ends her curiosity seems to stop.
1997, Alice Hoffman, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997, page 370The discussion of the literature that is considered in this paper as Africanish and not African, goes a long way to help us answer the question at hand. The observation made on Africanish Literature imply what then is African Literature.
2000, MJEAS, volume 3, page 31
Origin
- Old EnglishAfricanisc
- EnglishAfricanish
Inherited from Old English Africanisc. By surface analysis, African + -ish.
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