inlandish

Meaning

  1. Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native.
  2. Characteristic of one who is native or native-born; inexperienced, naïve, simplistic, unrefined.
  3. Of or pertaining to the interior of a country; of an inland nature or character.

Etymology

In summary

In some senses, from inland + -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (“native, indigenous”), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (“foreign, extravagant”).

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