different between dampish vs moisty
dampish
English
Etymology
From damp +? -ish.
Adjective
dampish (comparative more dampish, superlative most dampish)
- (obsolete) Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
- All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...].
- c. 1600, author unknown, once attributed to William Shakespeare, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, London: J.M. Dent, 1897, Act I, Scene 3 [1]
- We'll first hang Enfield in such rings of mist / As never rose from any dampish fen: / I'll make the brinèd sea ro rise at Ware, / And drown the marshes unto Stratford Bridge;
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
- Moderately damp or moist.
- 1879, Henry Vizetelly, Facts about Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Chapter X, p. 111, [2]
- Miles of long, dark-brown, dampish-looking galleries stretch away to the right and left, and though devoid of the picturesque festoons of fungi which decorate the London Dock vaults, exhibit a sufficient degree of mouldiness to give them an air of respectable antiquity.
- 1991, Seamus Heaney, "Squarings xl" in Seeing Things, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, p. 94,
- I was four but I turned four hundred maybe,
- Encountering the ancient dampish feel
- Of a clay floor. Maybe four thousand even.
- 2006, William Trevor, “An Afternoon” in Cheating at Canasta, New York: Viking, 2007, p. 99,
- Her hand was warm, lying there in his, dampish, fingers interlaced with his.
- 1879, Henry Vizetelly, Facts about Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Chapter X, p. 111, [2]
Derived terms
- dampishly
- dampishness
Translations
Anagrams
- amphids, phasmid
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moisty
English
Etymology
From Middle English moisti, moysty, equivalent to moist +? -y.
Adjective
moisty (comparative moistier, superlative moistiest)
- moist
Synonyms
- damp, humid, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet
Anagrams
- myotis
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