Saxonish

English Adjective Pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons. en 1863 November & December The Southern Literary Messenger The Anglo-Saxon Mania Dr. Stuart 37 11 & 12 681 Thus, the Germans of the South, a small and compact body, coming mainly, as they do, from the centre and South, or less Saxonish and more Latinised sections of the Tuton country, are hardly to be classed with the intensely Saxonish hordes who pass in the North under the generic, odium-charged, name of Dutchmen, and who at home were, as those they have left behind them are—the Yankees of Europe. en 1979 The letters of Karl Marx Karl Marx; Saul Kussiel Padover 226 A decent fellow, although somewhat Saxonish, as the name indicates. en 2007 Rhiannon Vicki Grove Rhia looked at Granna, and Granna looked harder at Mam, squinting her eyes. “Well, what sort of a Saxonish half-brained warning is that to be giving, Aigneis?” Proper noun Saxon; the language of the ancient Saxons. en 1808 Edward the Sixt. (1549) Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland - Volume 3 Raphael Holinshed 928 For Caire in British & Cestre in Saxonish are one thing, & doo signifie in English a fort, towre, or castell. en 1874 Worthies of All Souls Montagu Burrows And as for all authors of Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, British, Saxonish, Welsh, English, or Scottish, touchin in any wise the understanding of our antiquities, he had so fully read and applied them that they were in a manner graffed in him as of nature. en 1986 The Saxon Shore David Rudkin 25 We must learn Saxonish.