Meanings
adjectivehooliganish (comparative more hooliganish, superlative most hooliganish)
comparative more hooliganish · superlative most hooliganish
- Characterised by hooliganism; of or relating to hooligans.
His first cure had been in a large, slummy parish in East London—a nasty, hooliganish place it had been, and he looked back on it with loathing.
1935, George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter
Origin
Translations
Polish chuligański
- chuligańskicharacterised by hooliganism
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