amish

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: A=mish

CIDE DICTIONARY

amish, n. sing. & pl. 

 The Amish Mennonites.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

amish, a. 

 Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as “worldly conformity”. There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States. A branch having particularly strict adherence to the Amish principles are called Old Order Amish  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

amish, adj. belonging to a strict US Mennonite sect.

Etymology

prob. f. G Amisch f. J. Amen 17th-c. Swiss preacher