Saddish

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Somewhat sad. informal

    "He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head—three verses—kind of sweet and saddish—the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart"—and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it."

Example

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"He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head—three verses—kind of sweet and saddish—the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart"—and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it."

Etymology

From sad + -ish.

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