birthdayish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]birthdayish (comparative more birthdayish, superlative most birthdayish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a birthday.
- 1939, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside:
- What was that gleaming greenly on Mother's hand? A ring . . . Dad's present. All very well, but rings were common things . . . even Sissy Flagg had one. But a pearl necklace! “A necklace is such a nice birthdayish thing,” said Mother.
- 2015, Nancy Buckingham, Return to Vienna:
- I unpacked the parcels at once with an eager birthdayish feeling.