different between goodish vs woodish

goodish

English

Etymology

good +? -ish

Adjective

goodish (not comparable)

  1. Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
  2. Considerable; goodly.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.

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References

  • goodish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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woodish

English

Etymology

From wood +? -ish.

Adjective

woodish (comparative more woodish, superlative most woodish)

  1. (rare) Being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody. [from 16th c.]
  2. (obsolete) Characteristic of woods or woodland. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:
      The countrey wondering at such an Hermite; His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga, Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne, an excellent Horse-man, and a noble Italian Gentleman, to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances []

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