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crampish

crampish adjective: somewhat crampy.

Adjective

crampish (comparative more crampish, superlative most crampish)

  1. Somewhat crampy.
    • The Mesinger Cavalry Saddle is made like a horse saddle — it prevents you from slipping and avoids that crampish hold of the hands on the handle-bar.1909, Motorcycle Illustrated, Volume 4
    • She was feeling kind of crampish, so she went downstairs to lie down until dinner time.1949, John Harold Johnson, Negro Digest, volume 8

Forms of crampish

comparativemore crampish
superlativemost crampish

Origin of crampish

From cramp + -ish.

Questions about crampish

What does crampish mean?
Crampish means somewhat crampy.
What part of speech is crampish?
Crampish is an adjective.

Words near crampish in the dictionary

  1. cramping
  2. cramping someone's style
  3. cramping up
  4. crampingly
  5. crampings
  6. crampish
  7. crampit
  8. crampits
  9. cramplike
  10. crampon
  11. cramponed

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