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chocolatish

chocolatish adjective: resembling or characteristic of chocolate.

Adjective

chocolatish (comparative more chocolatish, superlative most chocolatish)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of chocolate.
    • A dusty walk through the old town of Tewkesbury, locally noted for its stocking manufactures and its fine church, was pleasantly succeeded by a delightful walk through green meadows covered with flowers of all hues, and by the river, which we cannot in this notice denominate shining, inasmuch as...1866 June 16, “Pic-nic at Tewkesbury”, in Berrow’s Worcester Journal. […], number 8537, Worcester, Worcestershire: […] Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton, […], →OCLC, page 8, column 3
    • But, strange to say, though the drink was chacolate^([sic]) in color and had a chocolatish taste, there was not a piece of chocolate in the drink- […]1891 October 21, “A New Southern Drink”, in Pacific Wine and Spirit Review: Journal of Viticulture, volume XXVII, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: R. M. Wood & Co., →OCLC, page 24, column 2

Examples of chocolatish in a sentence

  • Besides, she makes fudge—perfectly lovely fudge, all whitish and chocolatish and nuttish.1916 September 17, “Elizabeth Ann”, in The Courier-Journal, volume CXXVI, number 17,427 (New Series), Louisville, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The...
  • Or a custard cream or a bourbon.” “What’s on earth’s a bourbon when it’s a biscuit?” “This sort of chocolatish sandwich object.”1973, Margaret Storey, “You Lose on the Roundabouts”, in Wrong Gear, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 14:

Synonyms of chocolatish

Forms of chocolatish

comparativemore chocolatish
superlativemost chocolatish

Origin of chocolatish

From chocolate + -ish.

Questions about chocolatish

What does chocolatish mean?
Chocolatish means resembling or characteristic of chocolate.
How do you use chocolatish in a sentence?
Besides, she makes fudge—perfectly lovely fudge, all whitish and chocolatish and nuttish.
What part of speech is chocolatish?
Chocolatish is an adjective.

Words near chocolatish in the dictionary

  1. chocolatines
  2. chocolatiness
  3. chocolating
  4. chocolatini
  5. chocolatinis
  6. chocolatish
  7. chocolatize
  8. chocolatized
  9. chocolatizes
  10. chocolatizing
  11. chocolatière

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