inlandish

English

Etymology

In some senses, from inland +‎ -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (“native, indigenous”), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (“foreign, extravagant”).

Adjective

inlandish (not comparable)

1. (rare) Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native.
   • 1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea:

     Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]

   • 1840, Benjamin Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England:

     So also let every one who is cognizant or perpetrator, where an outlandish man injures an inlandish one, clear himself of that privity, according to the value of the property; […]

   • 1848, Isaac S. Mulford, Civil and Political History of New Jersey, page 56:

     That the company will take all the colonists as well free, as those that are in service, under their protection, and the same against all outlandish and inlandish wars and powers, with the forces they have there, as much as in their power layeth to defend.

   • 1849 November, John Wilson, “Dies Boreales”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine‎^[1], volume 66, number 409:

     In Fife or Forfar? Or some one or other of your outlandish, or inlandish, Lowland or Highland Counties?

   • 1965, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 20:

     […] and sometimes pushing too far, the transformation from an outlandish colonial history into an inlandish national one.

   • 2006, Hans-Georg Moeller, The Philosophy of the Daodejing:

     The text is quite “outlandish” in its format, and if we only allow for “inlandish” styles of writing, the Laozi will always remain alien to us.

2. (rare) Characteristic of one who is native or native-born; inexperienced, naïve, simplistic, unrefined.
   • 2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, page 179:

     A rap is literally inlandish (the product of barbarians born within the gates), a scatological scat-singing, the agonistic display of an uncomplicatedly emoting mammal.

   • 2001, Bradley M. Fralick, Through My Head: Essays by a Brain Injury Survivor:

     TALESPINNER, MILKO was in awe because he could tell some really outlandish, or maybe inlandish, tales himself. But, he had never heard such tales.

   • 2015, Charles P. Kindleberger, A Financial History of Western Europe, page 125:

     The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce regarded Berlin as inlandish and bureaucratic, given to underestimating the overpowering place of London as a gold, exchange and capital market, and unaware of the need for German trade to grow […]

3. Of or pertaining to the interior of a country; of an inland nature or character.
   • 1931, The Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute:

     Seaside greens need not become more and more “inlandish” in character.

   • 1948, John Board, The Right Way to Become a Golfer, page 114:

     There are some flattish, but not inlandish, holes on the way home from the turn, but I think the finish is rather weak when considered on a par with Deal, for instance.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “domestic, native”): outlandish

Related terms

• inlander