Quebeckish

alternative Quebecish · alternative Quebequish

1. Canadanot comparablerareOf, pertaining to, or typical of Quebec.

   There are times when the French-Canadians in the other provinces complain that the network image is too Quebeckish, and much more on television than on radio.

   1970, Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Mass Media

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   We can say that those years saw the birth of a freewheeling discussion of education, religion, and the traditional interpretation of national history. Inevitably, the critics came to attack Quebec Catholicism and those who had narrowed it and made it peculiarly “Quebeckish.”

   1978, Marcel Rioux, Quebec in Question, page 68

   Finally, the article is given excellent play in the newspaper, ideally with a photograph of the unfortunate cabby. He should look as foreign and un-Quebecish as possible.

   2002, Normand Lester, The Black Book of English Canada, page 22