Saxonishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

Saxonish (comparative more Saxonish, superlative most Saxonish)

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of the Saxons.
   • 1863 November & December, Dr. Stuart, “The Anglo-Saxon Mania”, in The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 37, number 11 & 12, page 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.

   • 1979, Karl Marx, ‎Saul Kussiel Padover, The letters of Karl Marx, page 226:

     A decent fellow, although somewhat Saxonish, as the name indicates.

   • 2007, Vicki Grove, Rhiannon:

     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?”