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weerish

weerish is the obsolete form of wearish.

Meaning of wearish

Adjective

wearish (comparative more wearish, superlative most wearish)

  1. (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
    • Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of weerish

comparativemore weerish
superlativemost weerish

Questions about weerish

What is weerish the obsolete form of?
Weerish is the obsolete form of wearish.

Words near weerish in the dictionary

  1. weeps buckets
  2. weeps Irish
  3. weepy
  4. weer
  5. Weering
  6. weerish
  7. Weerite
  8. weero
  9. weeros
  10. weers
  11. Weerses

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