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what-like, interrog. a. (n.) arch. and dial.
(Also as two words.)
[orig. Sc.: f. what pron. + like a. (q.v. 1 b ¶ ), as in ‘What is he like?’, after such-like.]
a. Of what appearance or aspect; of what kind or character. (Usually predicative.)
1719A. Ramsay Poems (1945) I. 214 To speer what like a Carlie is he. 1810R. H. Cromek Remains of Nithsdale & Galloway Song 37 What like may your lassie be? 1821Scott Kenilw. xi, I should be glad to know myself what like the fellow was. 1857Jas. Hamilton Less. Gt. Biog. 309 It would be interesting to know what like man was in the primeval paradise. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. ix, What like is Miss Havisham? 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iii. ii. 16 She knows Miss Abbey of old, remind her, and she knows what-like the home, and what-like the friend, is likely to turn out. 1876Morris æneids i. 751 Meanwhile unhappy Dido..asked..With what-like arms Aurora's son had come unto the King. 1905in Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 443/1 What-like hat had he on? 1953‘N. Blake’ Dreadful Hollow xii. 150 Now you tell me—what like are the Blick laddies?
b. as n. Aspect, appearance. nonce-use.
1853C. C. Leitch in Mem. (1856) 125 The..questions of the whereabouts and the what-like of a new bungalow. |