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ninetyish, a.|ˈnaɪntɪɪʃ|
[f. ninety a. and n. + -ish1.]
Of, belonging to, or characteristic of ‘the nineties’ of the nineteenth century; resembling, or suggestive of, what was then current. So ˈninetyism, the spirit of ‘the nineties’; ˈninetyishness, ninetyish characteristics.
1909Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 2/2 What the Standard had hoped was that ‘there might be a return to the rule of the 'nineties, when the seat was won or lost by a margin between two and five hundred votes’. Certainly there is nothing ninety-ish about Saturday's figures. 1918E. Marsh Rupert Brooke 13 He entertained a culte..for the literature that is now called ‘ninetyish’—Pater, Wilde and Dowson. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 327/4 Thus ‘Proteus’ in the New Statesman describes me as ‘engagingly ninety-ish’. 1941L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats iv. 66 He ceased to be ‘ninetyish’ with the Nineties. How saturated with ‘Ninetyism’ he had been can be seen [etc.]. 1959Times 13 Feb. 13/4 Consider the subjects, or titles, of Verklärte Nacht, Pierrot Lunaire, Wozzeck, Lulu, all in varying measure products of a decadent romanticism, ranging from ‘ninetyishness’ to post-Freudian psycho⁓pathology. 1973Guardian 28 Mar. 10/1 Firbank seemed negligible..his fictions artificial, naughty and Ninetyish. |