Dictionary

modish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈməʊdɪʃ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Conforming with fashion or style.
   • As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 83:
   • The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
2. In the current mode.
   • It’s surprisingly hard to track down plain old strawberry ice-cream these days – it seems to have been usurped by more modish combinations […] 2020 August 12, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect strawberry milkshake – recipe”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:

Forms

Deriveds

modishly · unmodish · modishness