goodish en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɡʊdɪʃ/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *gadanąvṛd. Proto-Germanic *gōdaz Proto-West Germanic *gōd Old English gōd Middle English good English good Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English goodish From good + -ish.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.
1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
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(not-comparable) Considerable; goodly.
The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “part 5”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
Deriveds
Translations (2)
bg сносен (rather good than the contrary) · fi melko hyvä (rather good than the contrary)