"penny-dreadfulish" meaning in All languages combined

See penny-dreadfulish on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more penny-dreadfulish [comparative], most penny-dreadfulish [superlative]
Etymology: From penny dreadful + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|penny dreadful|ish}} penny dreadful + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} penny-dreadfulish (comparative more penny-dreadfulish, superlative most penny-dreadfulish)
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a penny dreadful.
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          "ref": "1913, Doris Egerton Jones, Pied Piper, George W. Jacobs & Company, page 254:",
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          "text": "But if Sedlar and Ales aren't the same, then there's only one conclusion to come to: they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other! We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it."
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