Meanings
comparative more Greekish · superlative most Greekish
- Resembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.
Kitty Garman, daughter of Kathleen Garman—Lorna Wishart's sister—and Jacob Epstein, became his Greekish muse in a series of portraits culminating in Girl With Roses, a masterpiece of wide-eyed apprehension.
2002 May 18, William Feaver, “Seeing through the skin”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: Greeky
- obsoleteGreek, Grecian.
Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]1 more example
Look better on this virgin, and consider / This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing / In a Greekish dress.
1624, Philip Massinger, The Bondman
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveResembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.
Origin
- Old EnglishGrēcisc
- Middle Englishgrekissh
- EnglishGreekish
From Middle English grekissh, from Old English Grēcisc, from Grēcas (“the Greeks”) + -isc (“-ish”). By surface analysis, Greek + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Greekesque.
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Greekish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Greekish
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