a. [f. as prec. + -ISH.] In nonce-uses: a. Recalling family associations. b. Exhibiting the full force of family ties, ‘clannish.’
1824. New Monthly Mag., XI. 439. I proposed to take the addition of ville, observing that Snooksville had a very familyish sound; but my wife thought that a termination in veal of any sort would only suggest the idea of a butcher.
1891. Howells, An Imperative Duty, in Harper’s Mag., LXXXIII., Aug., 420/2. They’re a very familyish sort of a family; they’re so much bound up in one another.
