goanese

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

noun

"I discharged him, and through Berkeley's help I succeeded in securing a Goanese — a native of Goa which is a Portuguese settlement in India."
"In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not."

From Goa + -n- + -ese.

more Goanese (comparative) most Goanese (superlative)

Goan

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