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grownish en · ADJ

Etymology

From grown + -ish.

Meanings

1. Somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish
   • She brushed past the dry blooms while she took his measure. So grown, thirteen and grownish, casually out for a stroll at three a.m. 2000, Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones are Not My Child, page 563:
   • Correcting her grownish little one's sentence structure, “We 'have' been over this, or we've been over this. I didn't raise you to speak like trash, or smoke like trash. Let me smell your breath.” (Can we date this quote?), Rotting Strawberries, CatuKe Monique, page 143:

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