wannish

English

Etymology

From Middle English wannysche, wannyssh; equivalent to wan +‎ -ish.

Adjective

wannish (comparative more wannish, superlative most wannish)

1. (obsolete) Quite wan or pale.
   • 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 6:

     Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire / Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: [...]

   • 1890, Hezekiah Butterworth, The Log School-House on the Columbia‎^[1]:

     The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.

   • 1894, Leigh Gordon Giltner, The Path of Dreams‎^[2]:

     Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray.