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showmanish

adj

Etymology

From showman + -ish.

  1. derived from *(s)kewh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *skawwōną✻ — “to look, see”
  3. inherited from *skauwōn✻
  4. inherited from scēawian
  5. inherited from schewen
  6. suffixed as showman — “show + man”
  7. suffixed as showmanish — “showman + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a showman or showmanship.

    • “The Ascent of Money,” based on his book of the same title, secures his position as television’s most flamboyant, showmanish public intellectual.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for showmanish. 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