Kentish adjective & noun. ['kɛntɪʃ] OE.
[from Cent Kent (see below) from Latin Cantium from Celtic noun meaning either 'border' or 'white': see -ISH¹.]
A. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Kent, a county in SE England, and one of the supposed seven kingdoms of the Angles and Saxons. OE.
Kentish crow local a hooded crow. Kentish fire rhythmic hand clapping, either as applause or as a demonstration of impatience or dissent. Kentish glory a large, orange-brown and white patterned moth, Endromis versicolora. Kentish nightingale a blackcap. Kentish plover a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, resembling a pale ringed plover and of worldwide distribution. Kentish rag a hard compact limestone found in Kent, used for paving and building. Kentish tern a Sandwich tern.
b. noun.
1. pl. The natives or inhabitants of Kent. rare. OE.

2. The dialect of Kent spec. of the Old and Middle English periods. M19.

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