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fastish en · ADJ

Etymology

From fast + -ish.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Rather fast.
   • She's from Harwich; fastish, too, an' hez good luck; but dad he'd find fish in a graveyard. 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
   • England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.] 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 207:
   • Even the unashamed crib from Lohengrin in the middle section (D flat major) of the slow movement has a Dvořákian freshness, particularly when, as here, [Istvan] Kertesz adopts a fastish speed – faster than the score would strictly allow – and deliberately lightents the texture. 1977, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, Ivan March, “[Dvořák, Antonín (1841–1904)] Symphony No. 3 […]; Hussite overture, […]”, in Ivan March, editor, The Penguin Stereo Record Guide (Penguin Handbook), 2nd edition, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1978, →ISBN, page 344, column 2:

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