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Hullish
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hullish
English
Etymology
From en Hull ish.
Proper noun
The dialect of English spoken in Hull, Yorkshire.
en November 12 2002 Eddykins (Off Topic) Gas-Board etc. alt.silly.little.newsgroup Why can't things just be simple, like where you would have, say, a county like Somerset, [...]. Anyway, if Hull is going to stay not part of a county, I say what I said before, make it a completely independant country [...]. You could even develop your own language - Hullish. Your nationality would be Hullinian.
en September 13 2003 "RR" (initially quoting "Liz") Bring back OMO! uk.education.staffroom > Perhaps Gran was speaking dialect? That's just as proper. After all,> Wisbech museum is in the Fens!Gran spoke a fine, clear East Hullish!
en 2013 The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 0199596808 The canals, compost heaps, and tenfoots (Hullish for laneway) of O'Brien's poems recall the mouldy suburban landscapes of Raymond Briggs's Fungus the Bogeyman, and no less than in Briggs.
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to Hull.
2001 December 11, "tuppence", The Staff Room Web Ring Welcomes, uk.education.staffroom, replying to "Helen Tatterton" from Hull:
Oooo, a Hullish Helen - hello :)
2012, David Wheatley, Vacuous and Unknown, in Sketches, Dispatches, Hull Tales and Ballads: the Humber Writers celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens:
Dara will have left, I hope, with a newfound conviction that Irish is the Hullish vernacular of choice.
en 2014 Mark Batty A Heart Still in Hull: Huddled Together: Drama 50: Fifty years of Hull University Drama Department I remember those happy Hullish years fondly.