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What (who) is -ish - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
ISH; ...ish; …ish; Ish (disambiguation); ...Ish
-ish
1.
-ish is added to adjectives to form adjectives which indicate that someone or something has a quality to a small extent. For example, something that is largish is fairly large.
She is tallish, brown-haired, and clear-skinned...
With her was a youngish man in a dinner jacket.
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2.
-ish is added to nouns and names to form adjectives which indicate that someone or something is like a particular kind of person or thing. For example, 'childish' means like a child, or typical of a child.
She had entirely lost her girlish chubbiness.
...a man of monkish appearance.
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3.
-ish is added to words referring to times, dates, or ages to form words which indicate that the time or age mentioned is approximate.
I'll call you guys tomorrow. Noon-ish...
The nurse was fiftyish.
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-ish
-ish1
¦ suffix forming adjectives:
1. (from nouns) having the qualities or characteristics of: girlish.
of the nationality of: Swedish.
2. (from adjectives) somewhat: yellowish.
informal denoting an approximate age or time of day: sixish.
Origin
OE -isc, of Gmc origin.
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-ish2
¦ suffix forming verbs such as abolish.
Origin
from Fr. -iss- (from stems of verbs ending in -ir), from L. -isc- (suffix forming inceptive verbs).
-ish
·- A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.
II. -ish ·- A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.
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Ish
Ish may refer to:
- Ish (name) also ancient Hebrew word for Man at Genesis 2:23, also Ish-shah for Woman
- Chazon Ish, sobriquet of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
- the Sanskrit for "lord", see Ishvara
- ...ish (audio drama), Doctor Who audio drama
- Ish, a book by Peter H. Reynolds
- Kollel Chazon Ish, a group of married rabbis who study the Talmud
- Places
- Ish-Blloku, an upmarket area in Tirana, Albania
- Nowabad-e Ish, a village in north-eastern Afghanistan
- Arts
- ...ish (album), a 1989 album by the Australian rock band 1927
- A compilation album released by Some Bizzare
- Abbreviations
- International Students House, London
- International Student House of Washington, D.C.
- In situ hybridization
- Institut für Seefischerei, Hamburg (international museum abbreviation)
- International School of Helsinki
- International School of Hamburg
- International School of The Hague
- International School of Havana
- International School of Hyderabad
- Intrastructural help
- Irish Sport Horse
- Isolated systolic hypertension
Examples of use of -ish
1. The descriptive terms used for skin color run the gamut: "very fair," "fair," "wheat–ish," "wheat–ish–medium," "wheat–ish–dark," "dark" and "very dark." Family elders here commonly comment on a newborn baby‘s color, after checking out the gender.
2. "Ish!" he shouts (I‘m not sure if in frustration or excitement). "Ish, ish!" I want to share Beki‘s optimism, but I‘m a little deflated having seen the photos of the natural spectacles currently masked by blankets of cloud.
3. "Australia are notoriously bad at chasing 130–ish.
4. Breakfast: goat‘s milk yoghurt. 11–ish: coffee with Baileys.
5. Breakfast: the usual. 11–ish: coffee with Baileys.