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Harry Potterish

adj

Etymology

From Harry Potter + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Harry Potteresque.

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series.

    • Last summer interest in U.K. Garage reached Harry Potterish levels in Britain (David’s debut CD alone went six times platinum); […]
    • ‘[…] Oh, you could be something Harry Potterish.’ ‘Or maybe . . . Yes! If I could find the gear, I could go as a character from that book I’ve been reading to them.[…]’
    • In Not Just a Witch, Heckie has just finished Witches’ School where all the witches learn how to make the world a better place. Sound a bit Harry Potterish? It is, but it came before the J.K. Rowling adventures began.

  2. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Harry Potter.

    • That bespectacled, Harry Potterish face, frowning earnestly at the assorted jumble of Ben’s computer, stirred the soppiest memories in my breast of the days when my son had himself been just such a pink-cheeked cherub.
    • His dark brown hair was all over the shop, sticking out in tufts, and his spectacles were Harry Potterish.
    • I know about projectile vomiting because L—one of my brothers, the Harry Potterish one—had it when he was a baby.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Harry Potterish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA