negrish

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negrish (comparative more negrish, superlative most negrish)

  1. Obsolete form of negroish.
    • 1803, Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, John Hatchard, J. Mawman, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, volume 2, page 11:
      He dotes on this woman, whom he persuades now and then to our chapel service, and she complies without devotion, being a strict adherer to the negrish customs.

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