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Webster 1913 Edition
Goodish
Good′ish
,Adj.
Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
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goodish
goodish
English
Adjective
goodish (not comparable)
- Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter 33,
- I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter 33,
- Considerable; goodly.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- 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.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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References
- goodish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913