Evenish

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Somewhat even.

    "On the score of quality, some very in-and-out trials since tend to make the thirty-one exhibitors rather an evenish class, although to the eye it is long since a finer or more racing-looking lot ever came out ; Newmarket's pride, too, unquestionably having the best of it, both in the gifts of nature and the assistance of art."

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"On the score of quality, some very in-and-out trials since tend to make the thirty-one exhibitors rather an evenish class, although to the eye it is long since a finer or more racing-looking lot ever came out ; Newmarket's pride, too, unquestionably having the best of it, both in the gifts of nature and the assistance of art."

Etymology

From even + -ish. Compare Saterland Frisian ieuwenske (“next to, along side of, beside”).

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