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sharpish, a. and (adv.)|ˈʃɑːpɪʃ|
[f. sharp a. + -ish.]
1. Somewhat sharp.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 39 Sowre and sharpish iuces. 1651French Distill. iii. 87 A water somewhat sharpish. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Service, An acid or sharpish Liquor. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 208 The pontons, should be..sharpish fore and aft. 1880R. B. Watson in Jrnl. Linn. Soc., Zool. XV. 118 A minute, sharpish spiral thread.
2. quasi-adv. = sharply adv. (esp. sense 4); somewhat sharply. colloq.
1886Baumann Londinismen 174/1 He looks sharpish for his rents. 1899Longman's Mag. July 273 When a barge does come, Dorcas ‘bustles her about sharpish’, and there is a great to-do. 1952Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 119/1 We're late ourselves. Better be off sharpish if we're going to be home for tea. 1975T. Allbeury Special Collection viii. 54 They shuffled him back to Moscow pretty sharpish. |