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dressish en · ADJ

Etymology

From dress + -ish.

Meanings

1. (rare) dressy; fond of wearing fashionable clothing
   • This lass, Nelly Long, she was dressish and dapper, And, though our Dick was a good looked lad, She snubb'd him, scop'd him, for she was a snapper, And told him quite plumpish—she wan't to be had: […] 1829, Melodist, and Mirthful Olio:
   • Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's ^([sic]) very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all. 1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book, page 80:

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