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▪ I. ˈrockish, a.
Also 6 rockishe.
[f. rock n.1 + -ish.]
† Growing upon, composed of, rocks.
1562Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 71 The rockishe ashe is of a yelow color. 1570Dee Math. Pref. A iiij b, Consider the rockish huge mountaines, and the perilous vnbeaten wayes. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 78 On the typ of rockish turret stood gastlye Celæno.
▪ II. ˈrockish, a.2 orig. U.S.
[f. rock n.3 + -ish.]
Characteristic or reminiscent of rock music.
1977Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. c22/4 What he does do, and do well, is put his rockish ballad voice to baby songs such as ‘Baby, You're the One’. 1978Country Life 21 Dec. 2136/1 Can a rockish idiom be fitted to a dramatic purpose? 1980Washington Post 11 Nov. b3/2 She frolicked through vaguely rockish numbers, a straight middle-of-the-road ballad or two, a bit of '30s musical nostalgia and a song by Johnny Cash. 1989Boston Globe 21 July 26/4 Frisell showed he hasn't lost any of his subtlety and humour, and he has added a hard, rockish edge. |