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Dampish

//ˈdæmpɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky. obsolete

    "All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...]."

  2. 2
    Moderately damp or moist.

    "Miles of long, dark-brown, dampish-looking galleries stretch away to the right and left, and though devoid of the picturesque festoons of fungi which decorate the London Dock vaults, exhibit a sufficient degree of mouldiness to give them an air of respectable antiquity."

Adjective
  1. 1
    slightly wet wordnet

Etymology

From damp + -ish.

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