a. [f. LAKE sb.4 + -ISH.]
† 1. a. Abounding in lakes or pools. b. Inhabiting a lake. Obs.
1590. Greene, Orl. Fur. (1599), F 3. I know he knowes that watrie lakish hill.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. Fishes which are … lakish, as the Umbla, trout, carp [etc.].
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., xi. § 1 (1689), 110. All Fishes, whether Marine, Fluviatile, or Lakish.
2. Of or pertaining to the Lake poets; resembling the productions of those poets.
1819. Abelard & Heloisa, 222. Oh! that we had the Lakish pow’r To dwell on owls!—for half an hour.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XI. 478. The Edinburgh Reviewers would say it was a Lakish rant. Ibid. (1831), XXIX. 218. This couplet … was pronounced ‘lakish.’
Hence Lakishness.
1831. Blackw. Mag., XXIX. 218. Talking of lakishness—the Southrons … have a strange idea of the Lakes.
