folklorish

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folklorish (comparative more folklorish, superlative most folklorish)

(colloquial) Being similar to or having the quality of folklore.
- 2003, Journal of Narrative Theory: JNT. - Volume 33:
  The reporting in the British press at the time cast the local farmers' dismemberment of the wreckage as a kind of folklorish eucharist whereby a peasantry wielding rustic knives divided the body of a fallen god.
- 2016 (original 1956), Margaret Mead, New Lives for Old:
  Their mythology was a series of inconsequential tales, centring around folklorish birds with human or supernatural powers and clearly more related to the life of land people than to that of the Manus.