zooish

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English

Etymology

zoo +‎ -ish

Adjective

zooish (comparative more zooish, superlative most zooish)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a zoo.
    • 1995, Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy (page 574)
      Or was it that the years had shaped these things to make them inseparable from her growing memory of them? The trunk was lined with cedar, yet everything smelled zooish, the very opposite of Hygeia.