Newspaper vs Newspaperish - What's the difference?
newspaper | newspaperish | Related terms |
(countable) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 (uncountable, countable) A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.
To cover with newspaper.
(transitive) To engage in the business of journalism (usually used only in the gerund, newspapering)
(obsolete) to harrass in newspaper articles.
(humorous) Overly professionalist; palpably mechanical in execution
Prone to using overly phrases in excess.
Newspaperish is a related term of newspaper.
As a noun newspaper
is a publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.As a verb newspaper
is to cover with newspaper.As an adjective newspaperish is
overly professionalist; palpably mechanical in execution.newspaper
English
(wikipedia newspaper)Noun
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers ?}}
Synonyms
* (publication) daily (for a daily newspaper''), paper, rag (''derogatory ) * (paper on which newspapers are printed) newsprintDerived terms
* newspaperdom * newspaperismVerb
(en verb)- She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
- He newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towms.
- He was newspapered out of public life.