kernish
English
Etymology
From kern + -ish, from kern (“a boor”).
Adjective
kernish (comparative more kernish, superlative most kernish)
- (obsolete) clownish; boorish
- 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, pages 218–219:
- Ireland […] was once the conqueſt of one ſingle Earl with his private forces, and the ſmall aſſiſtance of a petty Kerniſh Prince,
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “kernish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.