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Kentish

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Kent·ish  (kntsh)
adj.
Of or relating to Kent, England, or its inhabitants.
n.
The dialect of English spoken in Kent.
Kentish [ˈkɛntɪʃ]
adj
of or relating to Kent
n
(Linguistics / Languages) Also called Jutish the dialect of Old and Middle English spoken in Kent See also Anglian, West Saxon
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Noun1.Kentish - one of the major dialects of Old English
Jutish
Old English, Anglo-Saxon - English prior to about 1100
2.Kentish - a dialect of Middle English
Middle English - English from about 1100 to 1450


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It was not unusual for those who wended home alone at midnight, to keep the middle of the road, the better to guard against surprise from lurking footpads; few would venture to repair at a late hour to Kentish Town or Hampstead, or even to Kensington or Chelsea, unarmed and unattended; while he who had been loudest and most valiant at the supper-table or the tavern, and had but a mile or so to go, was glad to fee a link-boy to escort him home.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
Men begin in Kentish Town with 80 pounds a year, and end in Park Lane with a hundred thousand.
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Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights.
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