grownish

English

Etymology

From grown +‎ -ish.

Adjective

grownish (comparative more grownish, superlative most grownish)

1. Somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish
   • 2000, Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones are Not My Child, page 563:

     She brushed past the dry blooms while she took his measure. So grown, thirteen and grownish, casually out for a stroll at three a.m.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Rotting Strawberries, CatuKe Monique, page 143:

     Correcting her grownish little one's sentence structure, “We 'have' been over this, or we've been over this. I didn't raise you to speak like trash, or smoke like trash. Let me smell your breath.”

Anagrams

• show ring, showring, shrowing, whorings, wrongish