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footballish

footballish adjective: having the physical characteristics associated with an American football player; being large and muscular.

Adjective

footballish (not comparable)

  1. Having the physical characteristics associated with an American football player; being large and muscular.
    • Don Torrey gives the picture originally of a shaggy-headed footballish fellow making a slave of the old piano.1942, William Page Harbeson, History of the Tau Chapter of Psi Upsilon, page 112
    • He was a big handsome footballish guy who quoted love poems by Kipling and these poems were not at all like other poems, such as Hiawatha and The Cremation of Sam McGee and Casey at the Bat and Little Orphant Annie.1962, Harry Allen Smith, To Hell in a Handbasket, page 127

Origin of footballish

From football + -ish.

Questions about footballish

What does footballish mean?
Footballish means having the physical characteristics associated with an American football player; being large and muscular.
What part of speech is footballish?
Footballish is an adjective.

Words near footballish in the dictionary

  1. footballifies
  2. footballify
  3. footballifying
  4. footballing
  5. footballisation
  6. footballish
  7. footballist
  8. footballistic
  9. footballists
  10. footballization
  11. footballs

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