a. nonce-wd. [f. as prec- + -Y.] Characteristic of what is English (as opposed to American, etc.).
1857. Springfield Republican, 25 April, 1/3. The paper is firm, heavy and ‘Englishy,’ and the press-work perfection’s self.
1880. Scribn. Mag., Feb., 633/1. ‘A fogger going to fodder his cattle,’ ‘before the summer ricks are all carted,’ ‘red haws on the hawthorn and hips on the briar,’ etc.—how Englishy such sentences sound!
