"runish" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "runish"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English runish",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*rūnisc"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *rūnisc",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rune",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "rune + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English runish, runisch, from Old English *rūnisc, *rȳnisc, rēnisc (“mysterious, mystic”), equivalent to rune + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more runish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most runish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "runish (comparative more runish, superlative most runish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 1 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884, George Stephens, Handbook of the old-northern runic monument of Scandinavia and England:",
          "text": "Hundreds of these Golden Ornaments — Rank-decorations, Family Medals, Gift- pieces, Amulets, or whatever else they may have been — have no letters at all, either runish or otherwise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Tango Wayne, Scandinal:",
          "text": "Susan's impatient monosyllable startled Jori, slung in the halter on her chest, but he promptly went back to sleep after blowing a couple of bubbles. 'It's in Runish, the old language.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to runes, runic inscription, or runic language; runic."
      ],
      "id": "en-runish-en-adj-84fJoqd7",
      "links": [
        [
          "rune",
          "rune"
        ],
        [
          "runic",
          "runic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ann R. Meyer, Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem:",
          "text": "Baltazar is stunned with fear as he watches the floating hand carve mysterious \"runisch sauez\" (runish writings) (1544-45) in the wall.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marly Youmans, The Throne of Psyche:",
          "text": "It's such cross-purpose my heart craves, These guests on old Twelfth Night, Their runish, unreadable moil Of prints, the barrowed creche Awaiting thaw.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mysterious; strange."
      ],
      "id": "en-runish-en-adj--knE~25h",
      "links": [
        [
          "Mysterious",
          "mysterious"
        ],
        [
          "strange",
          "strange"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Runish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "runish"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "runisch"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English runisch",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English runisch, a variant (by confusion) of renisch. Also rennish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more runish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most runish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "runish (comparative more runish, superlative most runish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 1 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 0 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 0 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rough, violent."
      ],
      "id": "en-runish-en-adj-TaFbIMTF"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Runish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "runish"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms suffixed with -ish",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "runish"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English runish",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*rūnisc"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *rūnisc",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rune",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "rune + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English runish, runisch, from Old English *rūnisc, *rȳnisc, rēnisc (“mysterious, mystic”), equivalent to rune + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more runish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most runish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "runish (comparative more runish, superlative most runish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884, George Stephens, Handbook of the old-northern runic monument of Scandinavia and England:",
          "text": "Hundreds of these Golden Ornaments — Rank-decorations, Family Medals, Gift- pieces, Amulets, or whatever else they may have been — have no letters at all, either runish or otherwise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Tango Wayne, Scandinal:",
          "text": "Susan's impatient monosyllable startled Jori, slung in the halter on her chest, but he promptly went back to sleep after blowing a couple of bubbles. 'It's in Runish, the old language.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to runes, runic inscription, or runic language; runic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rune",
          "rune"
        ],
        [
          "runic",
          "runic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ann R. Meyer, Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem:",
          "text": "Baltazar is stunned with fear as he watches the floating hand carve mysterious \"runisch sauez\" (runish writings) (1544-45) in the wall.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marly Youmans, The Throne of Psyche:",
          "text": "It's such cross-purpose my heart craves, These guests on old Twelfth Night, Their runish, unreadable moil Of prints, the barrowed creche Awaiting thaw.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mysterious; strange."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Mysterious",
          "mysterious"
        ],
        [
          "strange",
          "strange"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Runish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "runish"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "runisch"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English runisch",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English runisch, a variant (by confusion) of renisch. Also rennish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more runish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most runish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "runish (comparative more runish, superlative most runish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Rough, violent."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Runish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "runish"
}