Meanings
comparative more Englishable · superlative most Englishable
- Able to be translated into or expressed in English.
But this isn't an askable question. It isn't Englishable.
1997, Glimmer Train - Issues 21-24, page 622 more examples
Only two pages of the Pushkin are given to the lyric, and these to such relatively Englishable items as a ballad ("The Upas Tree") and the "Exegi Monumentum," which has had its hundreds of English predecessors.
1945, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 7The term is gemes, and the vehicle it provides for metaphoring is Englishable as 'pinching a plump baby in affection'.
1989, Alton L. Becker, Writing on the tongue, page 5
Origin
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