English

Adjective

Africanish ‎(comparative more Africanish, superlative most Africanish)

1. Somewhat African.
   • 1997, Alice Hoffman, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997, page 370:

     She might look out of the upstairs window to the convoluted twist of bramble and Africanish sumac beyond the squared, mowed lawn, but her mind does not travel into it. Where the manicured, defined lawn ends her curiosity seems to stop.

   • 2000, MJEAS, volume 3, page 31:

     The discussion of the literature that is considered in this paper as Africanish and not African, goes a long way to help us answer the question at hand. The observation made on Africanish Literature imply what then is African Literature.

   • 2015, Severino J. Albuquerque, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, Performing Brazil:

     Who is this woman who became such an iconic sex symbol? Braga describes herself: “I am a typical Brazilian. I have a typical Brazilian bottom, typical Brazilian colouring, even a bit Africanish, and typical Brazilian style” [...]