Meanings
- The dialect of English spoken in Hull, Yorkshire.
> Perhaps Gran was speaking dialect? That's just as proper. After all, > Wisbech museum is in the Fens! Gran spoke a fine, clear East Hullish!
2003 September 13, "RR" (initially quoting "Liz"), “Bring back OMO!”, in uk.education.staffroom (Usenet)2 more examples
Why can't things just be simple, like where you would have, say, a county like Somerset, [...]. Anyway, if Hull is going to stay not part of a county, I say what I said before, make it a completely independant^([sic]) country [...]. You could even develop your own language - Hullish. Your nationality would be Hullinian.
2002 November 12, Eddykins, “(Off Topic) Gas-Board etc.”, in alt.silly.little.newsgroup (Usenet)The canals, compost heaps, and tenfoots (Hullish for laneway) of O'Brien's poems recall the mouldy suburban landscapes of Raymond Briggs's Fungus the Bogeyman, and no less than in Briggs.
2013, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, →ISBN
- not comparableOf or pertaining to Hull.
Oooo, a Hullish Helen - hello :)
2001 December 11, "tuppence", The Staff Room Web Ring Welcomes, uk.education.staffroom, replying to "Helen Tatterton" from Hull2 more examples
Dara will have left, I hope, with a newfound conviction that Irish is the Hullish vernacular of choice.
2012, David Wheatley, Vacuous and Unknown, in Sketches, Dispatches, Hull Tales and Ballads: the Humber Writers celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles DickensI remember those happy Hullish years fondly.
2014, Mark Batty, A Heart Still in Hull: Huddled Together: Drama 50: Fifty years of Hull University Drama Department
Origin
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Hullish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hullish
“Hullish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hullish. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hullish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hullish.
Source: Hullish on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.