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wispish

wispish adjective: wispy.

Adjective

wispish (comparative more wispish, superlative most wispish)

  1. Wispy.
    • The clouds, still faintly tinged with the sunrise glow, rolled like masses of tinted feathers over the low hill-tops, and rising from the ground there was the misty, wispish breath which the young day seemed to exhale from its soft bosom.1888, Anna Bowman Dodd, chapter 4, in Glorinda, Boston: Roberts Bros, page 55
    • Same blue serge dress she had two years ago, the nap bleaching. Seen its best days. Wispish hair over her ears. And that dowdy toque: three old grapes to take the harm out of it. Shabby genteel. She used to be a tasty dresser.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of wispish

comparativemore wispish
superlativemost wispish

Origin of wispish

From wisp + -ish.

Questions about wispish

What does wispish mean?
Wispish means wispy.
What part of speech is wispish?
Wispish is an adjective.

Words near wispish in the dictionary

  1. wispiest
  2. wispily
  3. wispiness
  4. wisping
  5. Wispington
  6. wispish
  7. wispishly
  8. wisplike
  9. wisps
  10. wispy
  11. wiss

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