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goodish
English
Etymology
good +? -ish
Adjective
goodish (not comparable)
- Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
- 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.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Translations
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)
- (rare) Being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody. [from 16th c.]
- (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 […]
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:
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