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Etymology

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Tourette +‎ -ish

Adjective

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Tourettish (comparative more Tourettish, superlative most Tourettish)

  1. Of or relating to Tourette syndrome.
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      She readily accommodates Tourettish excitement, finding room for it in the outskirts of a commodious personality, and even gaining a certain advantage and pleasure from the extraordinary swiftness of thought and invention which goes with it.