Saxonish

English

Adjective

Saxonish (comparative more Saxonish, superlative most Saxonish)

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons.
   • 1863 November & December, Dr. Stuart, “The Anglo-Saxon Mania”, in The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 37, number 11 & 12, page 681:

     Thus, the Germans of the South, a small and compact body, coming mainly, as they do, from the centre and South, or less Saxonish and more Latinised sections of the Tuton country, are hardly to be classed with the intensely Saxonish hordes who pass in the North under the generic, odium-charged, name of Dutchmen, and who at home were, as those they have left behind them are—the Yankees of Europe.

   • 1979, Karl Marx, Saul Kussiel Padover, The letters of Karl Marx, page 226:

     A decent fellow, although somewhat Saxonish, as the name indicates.

   • 2007, Vicki Grove, Rhiannon:

     Rhia looked at Granna, and Granna looked harder at Mam, squinting her eyes. “Well, what sort of a Saxonish half-brained warning is that to be giving, Aigneis?”

Proper noun

Saxonish

1. Saxon; the language of the ancient Saxons.
   • 1808, “Edward the Sixt. (1549)”, in Raphael Holinshed, editor, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland - Volume 3, page 928:

     For Caire in British & Cestre in Saxonish are one thing, & doo signifie in English a fort, towre, or castell.

   • 1874, Montagu Burrows, Worthies of All Souls:

     And as for all authors of Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, British, Saxonish, Welsh, English, or Scottish, touchin in any wise the understanding of our antiquities, he had so fully read and applied them that they were in a manner graffed in him as of nature.

   • 1986, David Rudkin, The Saxon Shore, page 25:

     We must learn Saxonish.