dressish

English

Etymology

From dress +‎ -ish.

Adjective

dressish (comparative more dressish, superlative most dressish)

1. (rare) dressy; fond of wearing fashionable clothing
   • 1829, Melodist, and Mirthful Olio:

     This lass, Nelly Long, she was dressish and dapper,
     And, though our Dick was a good looked lad,
     She snubb'd him, scop'd him, for she was a snapper,
     And told him quite plumpish—she wan't to be had: […]

   • 1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book, page 80:

     Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's ^[sic] very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all.