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bunkerish

adj

Etymology

From bunker + -ish. Piecewise doublet of bunkeresque.

  1. borrowed from Bunker
  2. derived from *bʰenǵʰ-✻ — “thick”
  3. derived from *bunkô✻ — “a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”
  4. derived from bunki — “a heap”
  5. derived from bunker
  6. derived from bunker — “bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”
  7. suffixed as bunkerish — “bunker + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or reminiscent of a bunker.

    • Hole number one is a rather ordinary dogleg right; a high, bunkerish ridge on the right-hand side of the fairway is the sole unusual feature, but once over this the fairway rolls directly up into the green.
    • Nor did the Last Days of Trudeau and his bunkerish behaviour help.
    • With the dim lights and the basement walls, it had a faintly bunkerish feel.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA