fortyish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ).ti.ɪʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]fortyish
- Close to the number forty
- About forty years old.
- 1994, Sam Cook, “[Gerbils and other realities of the forties] Too much me”, in If This Is Mid-Life… Where’s the Crisis?, Duluth, Minn.: Pfeifer-Hamilton, →ISBN, page 120:
- I’m going to start a support group of us fortyish guys with this problem. LUMPS, we’ll call our group. Losing Unwanted Midriff Plumpitude Sensibly.
Numeral
[edit]fortyish
- Any number close to forty.
- 1993, Quarterly bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, volumes 61-62, Alpine Garden Society (Great Britain), page 348:
- One problem it drops in our laps is to have developed all fortyish of its species within our temperate area, from the Falklands to the central temperate Andes.
- 2003, Randall Robinson, The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other:
- A great many black men are Mark Lawrence's age (fortyish), height (six-two-ish), weight (one-seventy-ish), and complexion (a reddish medium brown) that hints of a childhood of freckles and umber-red hair
- 2004, Jean Lau Chin, The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination, page 46:
- In my day, more often than not, you had to break rank to join the very few fortyish-aged women (renegades) promoted
- 2006, Harold F. Kratch, One Soldier's Memories, page 109:
- The day was cloudy, and the temperature was about fortyish.