Dictionary

cheerish en · ADJ

Etymology

From cheer + -ish.

Meanings

1. (rare) cheerful
   • The sunny South develops a different view of life, a different literature and a different art from the lightless North. Here a clear smiling sky and a joyful disposition in a cheerish mind, […] 1902, Light, volume 2, page 93:
   • Did you give a cheerful greeting to the boy who came along, / Or a cheerish sort of "howdy" and then vanish in the throng? 1930, Journal of Education, volumes 111-112, page 425:

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Deriveds

cheerishness