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nohowish

nohowish adjective: feeling out of sorts.

Adjective

nohowish (comparative more nohowish, superlative most nohowish)

  1. (colloquial) Feeling out of sorts.
    • Perhaps I worked too hard, or the Oxford climate after the Cotswold air got me down. Within a fortnight I was feeling nohowish, as Keats called it.1936, John Middleton Murry, The autobiography of John Middleton Murry: between two worlds

Forms of nohowish

comparativemore nohowish
superlativemost nohowish

Origin of nohowish

From nohow + -ish.

Questions about nohowish

What does nohowish mean?
Nohowish means feeling out of sorts.
What part of speech is nohowish?
Nohowish is an adjective.

Words near nohowish in the dictionary

  1. Noha
  2. NOHC
  3. nohkan
  4. NoHo
  5. nohow
  6. nohowish
  7. nohows
  8. NOHP
  9. Nohrooz
  10. NOHs
  11. nohuda

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