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fastish

fastish adjective: rather fast.

Adjective

fastish (comparative more fastish, superlative most fastish)

  1. (colloquial) Rather fast.
    • She's from Harwich; fastish, too, an' hez good luck; but dad he'd find fish in a graveyard.1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC
    • Even the unashamed crib from Lohengrin in the middle section (D flat major) of the slow movement has a Dvořákian freshness, particularly when, as here, [Istvan] Kertesz adopts a fastish speed – faster than the score would strictly allow – and deliberately lightents the texture.1977, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, Ivan March, “[Dvořák, Antonín (1841–1904)] Symphony No. 3 […]; Hussite overture, […]”, in Ivan March, editor, The Penguin Stereo Record Guide (Penguin...

Forms of fastish

comparativemore fastish
superlativemost fastish

Origin of fastish

From fast + -ish.

Questions about fastish

What does fastish mean?
Fastish means rather fast.
What part of speech is fastish?
Fastish is an adjective.

Words near fastish in the dictionary

  1. fasting glucose
  2. fasting spittle
  3. fastinge
  4. fastinges
  5. fastings
  6. fastish
  7. Fastiv
  8. fastlike
  9. fastloader
  10. fastloaders
  11. fastly

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