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bluntish en · ADJ

Etymology

From blunt + -ish.

Meanings

1. Somewhat blunt.
   • They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.
   • I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath. 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, Part I, Chapter 1:
   • […] at nine years, the foremost teeth shew longer, yellower, and fouler than before; and the tushes become bluntish […] 1759, “Horsemanship”, in A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences, volume 2, London: J. Coote, page 97:
   • The rather bluntish cast of his face was even blunter and plainer. 1950, Mervyn Peake, “78, IV”, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

Forms

Deriveds

bluntishness · bluntishly