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Kentish Definition

Kent·ish (ken′tis̸h)

adjective

of Kent or its people or language

noun

the English dialect spoken in Kent, esp. in its Old English and Middle English stages

Kentish Quotes

Up the hill where stucco houses inVirginia creeper drownö And my childish wave of pity, seeing children carrying down Sheaves of drooping dandelions to the courts of Kentish Town.

—Betjeman, SirJohn

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.Fogonthe Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships† And hard byTemple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, atthevery heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam