suffix
1 (in adjectives and nouns) of a country or city; a person who lives in a country or city; the language spoken there:
Chinese * Viennese
2 (in nouns) (often disapproving) the style or language of:
journalese * officialese
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This entry for -ese is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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