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evenish en · ADJ

Etymology

From even + -ish. Compare Saterland Frisian ieuwenske (“next to, along side of, beside”).

Meanings

1. Somewhat even.
   • With paintbrushes and bourbons in hand and cigarettes clamped between our teeth we spent a happy week or so covering ourselves and the boat in an evenish coat of yellow paint. At the time, ideas like that seemed normal, sensible even. 2011, Paul Copperwaite, The Mammoth Book of Drug Barons:
   • On the score of quality, some very in-and-out trials since tend to make the thirty-one exhibitors rather an evenish class, although to the eye it is long since a finer or more racing-looking lot ever came out ; Newmarket's pride, too, unquestionably having the best of it, both in the gifts of nature and the assistance of art. 1845, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review:

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Synonyms

evenlike