Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

folklorish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: folk-lor-ish
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being similar to or having the quality of folklore.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"The reporting in the British press at the time cast the local farmers' dismemberment of the wreckage as a kind of folklorish eucharist whereby a peasantry wielding rustic knives divided the body of a fallen god."
"Their mythology was a series of inconsequential tales, centring around folklorish birds with human or supernatural powers and clearly more related to the life of land people than to that of the Manus."

Etymology

From folklore + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: folklore

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more folklorish (comparative) most folklorish (superlative)

Questions

What does folklorish mean?: Being similar to or having the quality of folklore.
Where does folklorish come from?: From folklore + -ish.

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