Meaning of Hullish | Babel Free

Definitions

The dialect of English spoken in Hull, Yorkshire.

Examples

“Why can't things just be simple, like where you would have, say, a county like Somerset, [...]. Anyway, if Hull is going to stay not part of a county, I say what I said before, make it a completely independant^([sic]) country [...]. You could even develop your own language - Hullish. Your nationality would be Hullinian.”

“> Perhaps Gran was speaking dialect? That's just as proper. After all, > Wisbech museum is in the Fens! Gran spoke a fine, clear East Hullish!”

“The canals, compost heaps, and tenfoots (Hullish for laneway) of O'Brien's poems recall the mouldy suburban landscapes of Raymond Briggs's Fungus the Bogeyman, and no less than in Briggs.”

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