Amish

[ US /ˈɑmɪʃ, ˈeɪmɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an American follower of the Mennonite religion
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How To Use Amish In A Sentence

  • It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
  • For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine.
  • Moravians, Mennonites, Amish, Schwenkfelders, Dunkers, and other German groups, including Rosicrucians, would flourish there.
  • We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt. Arabian nights. English
  • I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • I was beginning to feel a little famished with all the smiling, dancing and chit-chatting, so I excused myself from my little group of friends to get myself some edible delicacies from the buffet table.
  • More generally, it’s the expression to be defined, as opposed to the definiens, which is the phrase doing the defining.beamishQuote The Volokh Conspiracy » Definiendum
  • In about eight miles of Lancaster, there are about 25,000 Amish living in seclusion.
  • 1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • In the past couple of decades women have become noticeably less squeamish than men - so much so that feminine frankness has become hard to avoid. Times, Sunday Times
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