negroishadj.

1746 Pennsylvania Gaz. 11 Sept. It is of a dark Brown and something curled, and his Speech is Negroish.

1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 65 The children, by being brought up, and constantly associating with the negroes..contract a negroish kind of accent and dialect.

1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Mass. (1911) xii. 398 They would cut so many negroish capers in tragedy.

1861 Temple Bar 2 201 The sentimental songs had nothing peculiarly negroish about them.

1874 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Apr. 10/2 It is clear that they have little in common with the negroish races to the west of them.

1915 J. Muir Trav. in Alaska i. vi. 77 They are pale copper-colored, have small feet and hands, are not at all negroish in lips or cheeks like some of the coast tribes.

2004 J. McWhorter in T. Jacoby Reinventing Melting Pot 256 Today, any white pop singer who wants to succeed sings and moves in a way that white Americans at the turn of the twentieth century would have perceived to be oddly ‘Negro-ish’.