wheyishadj.
/ˈhweɪɪʃ/ Having the nature or quality of whey; like or resembling whey in consistence, colour, or other quality; watery, thin; palish.
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the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > like whey
wheyey1547
wheyish1560
the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > whey
wheyey1547
wheyish1560
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale
blackeOE
blokec1200
blakec1275
fadec1290
bleykea1300
palisha1398
wanned1494
ashy?1541
wearish-coloured1548
wanny1555
wheyish1560
bleak1566
paly1568
ghastly1574
blankish1580
sick1599
palled1601
ashied1613
lurid1656
lunar1742
wax-like1748
ashen1808
unbrightened1827
waxy1835
peely-wally1895
waxen-hued1916
1560 tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde (new ed.) ii. sig. I.iv The vayne..whiche bryngeth the whayishe humour into the left kydnay.
1572 T. Twyne tr. Dionysius Periegetes Surueye World sig. Eviij A wheyish Topase.
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. xxxiv. 207 A watrish or whaish & vnprofitable substance.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes 2nd Intermeane 57 in Wks. II If it be fresh and sweet butter; but say it be sower and wheyish.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 150 Some River-Water will look of a wheyish whiteish Colour.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 295 A cow..lately had the yellows, and the first coming of them to be known was by her milk being wheyish.
1801 T. Beddoes Hygëia vi. (1802) 43 These break..and discharge the ill~conditioned, wheyish, and curdy matter.
1807 J. Hall Trav. Scotl. II. 327 The liquid oozing from the roof in a few minutes seems to be formed into a wheyish substance.
Derivatives
ˈwheyishness n. wheyish quality; also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > qualities of liquid > thinness or paleness
wheyishness1637
wheyiness1662
diluteness1668
dilution1805
the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > wheyish quality
wheyishness1637
wheyiness1662
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun]
feebleness1533
washiness1631
wateriness1660
wheyishness1803
inexpressiveness1815
ineffectiveness1865
nullity1883
wishy-washiness1891
1637 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (ed. 5) ii. 107 To prevent the wheyishnesse of the Custard.
1803 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 453 I have read Cowper's ‘Odyssey’..to cure my poetry of its wheyishness.
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adj.1560