traitorish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

traitor +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

traitorish (comparative more traitorish, superlative most traitorish)

  1. traitorly; treasonous
    • 1825, Ephraim Hardcastle (William Henry Pyne), The Twenty-Ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration[1], volume 1, page 14:
      "What, ma'am!" placing her brawny arms akembo, "to fall into these fantigues and fantasies, and swound away, as a body may say, and all about a traitorish scape-grace the like of he! [] "