tokenish

adj

Etymology

From token + -ish.

  1. inherited from tācnian
  2. inherited from toknen
  3. derived from *deyḱ-✻ — “to show, instruct, teach”
  4. inherited from *taikną✻ — “indicator, symbol, sign”
  5. inherited from *taikn✻
  6. inherited from tācn — “sign, symbol”
  7. inherited from token
  8. suffixed as tokenish — “token + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a token

    Resembling a token; symbolic; (by extension) insignificant; nominal.

    • a tokenish gesture

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tokenish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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