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dressish

dressish adjective: dressy; fond of wearing fashionable clothing.

Adjective

dressish (comparative more dressish, superlative most dressish)

  1. (rare) dressy; fond of wearing fashionable clothing
    • This lass, Nelly Long, she was dressish and dapper,
      And, though our Dick was a good looked lad,
      She snubb'd him, scop'd him, for she was a snapper,
      And told him quite plumpish—she wan't to be had: […]1829, Melodist, and Mirthful Olio
    • Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's ^([sic]) very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all.1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book, page 80

Forms of dressish

comparativemore dressish
superlativemost dressish

Origin of dressish

From dress + -ish.

Questions about dressish

What does dressish mean?
Dressish means dressy; fond of wearing fashionable clothing.
What part of speech is dressish?
Dressish is an adjective.

Words near dressish in the dictionary

  1. dressing-up
  2. dressingroom
  3. dressingrooms
  4. dressings
  5. dressings-down
  6. dressish
  7. Dresslar
  8. Dresslars
  9. Dressler
  10. Dressler syndrome
  11. Dressler's syndrome

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