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单词 so-soish
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so-soishadj.

Forms: Also so-so-ish.
Etymology: < so-so (see so-so adv. and adj.).
Somewhat so-so; rather indifferent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adjective]
feeblec1275
demeanc1380
unnoblec1384
coarse1424
colourlessc1425
passable1489
meana1500
indifferent1532
plain1539
so-so1542
mediocre1586
ordinary1590
fameless1611
middling1652
middle-rate1658
ornery1692
so-soish1819
nohow1828
betwixt and between1832
indifferential1836
null1847
undazzling1855
deviceless1884
uncompetitive1885
tug1890
run of the mill1919
serviceable1920
dim1958
spammy1959
comme ci, comme ça1968
vanilla1972
meh2007
1819 J. Keats Let. 15 Apr. (1931) II. 353 Do you and the miss Birkbecks get groggy on any thing—a little so so ish so as to be obliged to be seen home with a Lantern[?].
1826 M. Wilmot Let. 13 Jan. (1935) 231 Major F[alconer] goes on so, so, ish, and poor dear Bessy out of spirits.
1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 475 An imitation of..an old Scotch ballad—very so-so-ish.
1847 Illustr. London News 4 Sept. 158/2 The jumping was only so-so-ish.
1888 B. L. Farjeon Miser Farebrother xiii I like him, just a little, in a so-soish way.

Derivatives

so-soishly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adverb]
so-so1530
indifferently?c1550
meanly1550
colourlessly1572
indifferent1583
passable1591
passablya1610
nohow1779
so-soishly1842
so-and-so1844
monochromatically1890
serviceably1896
comme ci, comme ça1945
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 236/2 Many..views being uninteresting in subject,..and but very so-soishly engraved.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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