Goanese

English

Etymology

Goa +‎ -n- +‎ -ese

Noun

Goanese (plural Goanese)

1. (now only in the plural) A person from Goa.
   • c. 1900, John Brunton, John Brunton's Book: Being the Memories of John Brunton, Engineer, 1812-1899, published 1939, page 88

     I discharged him, and through Berkeley's help I succeeded in securing a Goanese — a native of Goa which is a Portuguese settlement in India.

   • 1933, Helen Simpson, chapter 5, in The Woman on the Beast‎^[1]:

     In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.

Adjective

Goanese (comparative more Goanese, superlative most Goanese)

1. Of or relating to Goa

Synonyms

• Goan