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underwaterish en · ADJ

Etymology

From underwater + -ish.

Meanings

1. As if underwater.
   • The scene around her—the buildings, the people—all appeared underwaterish—insubstantial and weaving. 2000, Robert K. Wen, Love Across the Pacific, →ISBN, page 131:
   • But in the end the thumping turned out to be the strange, underwaterish rhythm of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', coming from a small transistor radio belonging to a fed-up-looking North Countryman with a big family and sand in his turn-ups. 2015, John Gale, Clean Young Englishman, →ISBN:
   • With lovely, underwaterish movements, she settled her wide-trunked body into her chair, and there she would remain, expecting to be waited upon by those around her, which indeed nearly always happened. 2006, Anne Crosby, Matthew: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 51:

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