goodish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]goodish (not comparable)
- Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
- I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.
- Considerable; goodly.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “part 5”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “goodish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.