Hullish

See also: hullish

English

Etymology

Hull +‎ -ish

Proper noun

Hullish

1. The dialect of English spoken in Hull, Yorkshire.
   • 2002 November 12, Eddykins, “(Off Topic) Gas-Board etc.”, in alt.silly.little.newsgroup (Usenet):

     Why can't things just be simple, like where you would have, say, a county like Somerset, [...]. Anyway, if Hull is going to stay not part of a county, I say what I said before, make it a completely independant^[sic] country [...]. You could even develop your own language - Hullish. Your nationality would be Hullinian.

   • 2003 September 13, "RR" (initially quoting "Liz"), “Bring back OMO!”, in uk.education.staffroom (Usenet):

     > Perhaps Gran was speaking dialect? That's just as proper. After all,
     > Wisbech museum is in the Fens!
     Gran spoke a fine, clear East Hullish!

   • 2013, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, →ISBN:

     The canals, compost heaps, and tenfoots (Hullish for laneway) of O'Brien's poems recall the mouldy suburban landscapes of Raymond Briggs's Fungus the Bogeyman, and no less than in Briggs.

Adjective

Hullish (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Hull.
   • 2001 December 11, "tuppence", The Staff Room Web Ring Welcomes, uk.education.staffroom, replying to "Helen Tatterton" from Hull:

     Oooo, a Hullish Helen - hello :)

   • 2012, David Wheatley, Vacuous and Unknown, in Sketches, Dispatches, Hull Tales and Ballads: the Humber Writers celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens:

     Dara will have left, I hope, with a newfound conviction that Irish is the Hullish vernacular of choice.

   • 2014, Mark Batty, A Heart Still in Hull: Huddled Together: Drama 50: Fifty years of Hull University Drama Department:

     I remember those happy Hullish years fondly.