Winnipegish

comparative more Winnipegish · superlative most Winnipegish · alternative Winnipeg-ish

1. From, characteristic of, or resembling the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

   The Roughriders just aren't that good. They look ... oh, how can I say this ... they just look too Winnipegish.

   2011 October 5, “Who is paying how much for what?”, in Estevan Mercury

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   The conflict began as a theological disagreement, but as time went on various leaders, in their letters, described it as a dispute ‘between the Mennonite churches in the Province of Manitoba and of the City of Winnipeg.’ Other rural leaders referred to various new practices and ideas that they did not like as ‘Winnipegish.’

   1996, T. D. Regehr, Mennonites in Canada, 1939–1970: A People Transformed, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 182

   You need not be gay, Winnipegish or even arty to relate to My Winnipeg; its themes of desire and grief are universal.

   2007 September 13, Gordon Bowness, “Out gayed by Guy Maddin”, in Xtra!