Englishable

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adjective

Able to be translated into or expressed in English.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveEnglishable (comparative more Englishable, superlative most Englishable)

comparative more Englishable · superlative most Englishable

  1. 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 62
    2 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 7

    The 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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