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shortish, a.|ˈʃɔːtɪʃ|
[f. short a. + -ish.]
Rather short. Also in comb.
1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. 24 Shortish-tailed brown Baboon. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 253 He was a stout, shortish, compactly-made fellow. 1835Hood Poetry, Prose, & Worse xxxvi, To tenants but shortish at present, When Michaelmas comes with its day. 1871W. A. Leighton Lichen-Flora 146 Laciniæ shortish. 1882Blackmore Christowell xxii, A shortish old man with hedger's gloves on. |