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Maine +‎ -ish

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Maineish (comparative more Maineish, superlative most Maineish)

  1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of the U.S. state of Maine or its people.
    • 1985, Randall Jarrell, Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection, Boston: Houghton Mifflin:
      I hope that fire from heaven consumes your Maineish haven, and you have to come back to New York, that awful place.

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