Quebeckish
English
Alternative forms
- Quebecish, Quebequish
Etymology
From Quebec + -ish. Compare English Quebecois.
Adjective
Quebeckish (not comparable)
- (rare, Canada) Of, pertaining to, or typical of Quebec.
- 1970, Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Mass Media:
- There are times when the French-Canadians in the other provinces complain that the network image is too Quebeckish, and much more on television than on radio.
- 1978, Marcel Rioux, Quebec in Question, page 68:
- We can say that those years saw the birth of a freewheeling discussion of education, religion, and the traditional interpretation of national history. Inevitably, the critics came to attack Quebec Catholicism and those who had narrowed it and made it peculiarly “Quebeckish.”
- 2002, Normand Lester, The Black Book of English Canada, page 22:
- Finally, the article is given excellent play in the newspaper, ideally with a photograph of the unfortunate cabby. He should look as foreign and un-Quebecish as possible.
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