What does "fairish" mean?
A fairy.
Fairish
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A fairy.
- Grammar: fairish is listed as adj, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: reasonable, acceptable, adequate, admissible.
- Useful contrasts: biased, hazardous, inclement.
- Usage evidence: Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, [...]
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A fairy. dialectal
"Next day, Kathy took the potato her mother gave her, and gnawing it all to the heart, she set out upon her search for the fairish, munching at the half-raw core as she went her way. She found the fairish waiting by the bog, with her lap full of berries, and some mealy roots, like sweet, boiled radishes."
Adjective
- 1 Of moderate quality, size, etc. not-comparable
"Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, [...]"
- 2 In reasonable health and spirits, but not great. not-comparable
"Lord Loam (To Tompsett, as they partake of tea together): And how are all at home? Tompsett: Fairish, my lord,"
- 3 Used as a mile intensifier not-comparable
"Then I went and fetched him; though I had the deuce of a bother making the coppers believe that he was my brother—you see he was in a fairish mess, but he did look like a gentleman, which is more than I do nowadays."
- 4 Of reasonable fairness; even-handed or equitable, but probably not as good as one wants. not-comparable
"This was a. fairish judgement, he thought, if hard.·"
- 5 Mostly mild and clement. not-comparable
"Fairish all day but clouded all over at 6 p.m."
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- 6 Somewhat fair or light-colored. not-comparable
"Suetonius describes Augustus with leviter inflexum et subflavum 'wavy and fairish' hair (Divus Augustus 79), which, coupled with his bright eyes and medium complexion , perhaps awards him the bravery of a lion (Evans 1935: 65–6; 1969:53-4; Gascou 1984:603)."
- 7 Pertaining to fairies. dialectal, not-comparable
"In this tongue she sang the children ballads and told them tales of the 'fairish' (fairies) which lived in the Bottom before machinery drove them away, stories of the graves under the rectory back-kitchen, 'of witches running red-hot needles into human flesh.'"
Adjective
- 1 (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored wordnet
- 2 not excessive or extreme wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, [...]"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "fairish"?
Common synonyms include: reasonable, acceptable, adequate, admissible, all right, alright.
How do you use "fairish" in a sentence?
Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, [...]
Etymology
From fair + -ish.