KENTISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kentish mean? 

• KENTISH (noun)
  The noun KENTISH has 2 senses:

1. one of the major dialects of Old English

2. a dialect of Middle English

  Familiarity information: KENTISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENTISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the major dialects of Old English

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Jutish; Kentish

Hypernyms ("Kentish" is a kind of...):

Anglo-Saxon; Old English (English prior to about 1100)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dialect of Middle English

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Kentish" is a kind of...):

Middle English (English from about 1100 to 1450)

 Context examples 

Far away, from among the Kentish woods there rose a thin spray of smoke.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not until we had consumed some hot tea at the station and taken our places in the Kentish train that we were sufficiently thawed, he to speak and I to listen.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The night had fallen on the Kentish hills when we were rowed ashore—and fallen darkly upon me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I showed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand, from a maid of honour’s toe; it was about the bigness of Kentish pippin, and grown so hard, that when I returned England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and set in silver.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I made several attempts to get out of their way—such as standing on a chair to look at a map on the other side of the room, and poring over the columns of a Kentish newspaper—but they always attracted me back again; and whenever I looked towards those two red suns, I was sure to find them, either just rising or just setting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After an interval of Mrs. Kidgerbury—the oldest inhabitant of Kentish Town, I believe, who went out charing, but was too feeble to execute her conceptions of that art—we found another treasure, who was one of the most amiable of women, but who generally made a point of falling either up or down the kitchen stairs with the tray, and almost plunged into the parlour, as into a bath, with the tea-things.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My shirt and trousers, stained with heat, dew, grass, and the Kentish soil on which I had slept—and torn besides—might have frightened the birds from my aunt's garden, as I stood at the gate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)