Englishy

comparative more Englishy · superlative most Englishy

1. Somewhat English.

   "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, adopting an Englishy voice, "this is not the limit of their benevolence."

   1896, John Horne, A Canny Countryside

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   I didn't think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an Englishy accent.

   1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 25, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 165

   In the end he settled for a very faint and tightly checked greeny shirt to go with his dark tweed jacket (an Englishy touch, along with the college tie […]

   2001, Tim Parks, Juggling the Stars