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longish en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English long Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English longish From long + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Somewhat long.
    • It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.
    • She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles. 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 16, in Klee Wyck:
    • 1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, http://www.bartleby.com/364/294.html "How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave undone!)