burgish

adj

Etymology

From burg + -ish. Compare burgeois, burgess.

  1. derived from *burgz
  2. derived from *burg
  3. derived from burgus
  4. suffixed as burgish — “burg + ish

Definitions

  1. Of, like, resembling, or typical of a burg

    Of, like, resembling, or typical of a burg; citylike.

    • Maybe she needed to get out of the house—she's been inside it for two days—but that would only bring everything into sharper focus. She'd see more clearly how burgish Bleak could get.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for burgish. 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