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Etymology

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From hooligan +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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hooliganish (comparative more hooliganish, superlative most hooliganish)

  1. Characterised by hooliganism; of or relating to hooligans.
    • 1935, George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter:
      His first cure had been in a large, slummy parish in East London—a nasty, hooliganish place it had been, and he looked back on it with loathing.

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