fastish

English

Etymology

From fast +‎ -ish.

Adjective

fastish (comparative more fastish, superlative most fastish)

1. (colloquial) Rather fast.
   • 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:

     She's from Harwich; fastish, too, an' hez good luck; but dad he'd find fish in a graveyard.

   • 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 207:

     England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.]

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