islandish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From island +‎ -ish.

Adjective[edit]

islandish (comparative more islandish, superlative most islandish)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to or characteristic of an island; insular.
    • 1577, John Dee, Perfect Arte of Navigation:
      He being, of himself, so bent: As, purposing, first, Inuincibly to Fortify the Chiefest and Vttermost Walls of his Ilandish Monarchy, against all Forreyn Encombrance possible […].
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