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tolerablish

tolerablish adjective: somewhat tolerable.

Adjective

tolerablish (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, colloquial) Somewhat tolerable.
    • There was a good many there, and some on 'em learned to read very well, and some couldn't learn nohow. I got on tolerablish.1844, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, W. and R. Chambers, page 412
    • ‘Ay, ma'am, Betty do fight it out tolerablish,’ was the reply to this compliment.1857, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Dynevor terrace: or, The clue of life, Oxford University, page 29

Origin of tolerablish

From tolerable + -ish.

Questions about tolerablish

What does tolerablish mean?
Tolerablish means somewhat tolerable.
What part of speech is tolerablish?
Tolerablish is an adjective.

Words near tolerablish in the dictionary

  1. Toler
  2. tolerabilities
  3. tolerability
  4. tolerable
  5. tolerableness
  6. tolerablish
  7. tolerably
  8. toleragenic
  9. tolerance
  10. tolerance break
  11. tolerance breaks

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