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yarrish

yarrish adjective: having a rough, dry taste.

Adjective

yarrish (comparative more yarrish, superlative most yarrish)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) Having a rough, dry taste.
    • The others are of a dry or yarrish taste and mixd with Whitesour make an incomparable Cider.1900, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and transactions, volume 32

Forms of yarrish

comparativemore yarrish
superlativemost yarrish

Origin of yarrish

From yar (“sour, brackish”) + -ish.

Questions about yarrish

What does yarrish mean?
Yarrish means having a rough, dry taste.
What part of speech is yarrish?
Yarrish is an adjective.

Words near yarrish in the dictionary

  1. yarringle
  2. yarringles
  3. Yarrington
  4. Yarringtons
  5. yarris
  6. yarrish
  7. yarrow
  8. Yarroweyah
  9. Yarrowford
  10. Yarrowitch
  11. yarrowite

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