- Why do you always walk like that? That’s very dinosaurish of you.
Dinosaurish
adjective; compounding
Like or resembling a dinosaur. This word is an example of the current trend of forming adjectives by adding –ish to the end of nouns. Basically, the speaker wants to explain that the way I was walking looks like the way a dinosaur would walk, but chooses to apply this adjective to me.
Etymology : Dinosaurish. From Greek Deinos ‘terrible’ + Sauros ‘lizard’ + English -ISH ‘ADJ’
Source : Friend at Rice
Last modified: 10 June 2008