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uplandish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
up-lan-dish
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts.

Obsolete

adj

Rustic, rude, boorish; countrified, unsophisticated, or uncivilized.

Obsolete

adj

Wild or savage; mountainous, or dwelling in the mountains.

Etymology

From Middle English uplondish, oplondysch, uplondysch, from Old English uplendisc (“uplandish”); equivalent to upland + -ish.

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more uplandish (comparative) most uplandish (superlative)

Synonyms

bumpkinish crude barbaric heathen pagan animalistic barbarian barbarious barbarous brutal brutish Gothic

Questions

What does uplandish mean?
Of or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts.
Where does uplandish come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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