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Wearish

//ˈwɪəɹɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid. obsolete
  2. 2
    Sickly, wizened, feeble. dialectal, obsolete

    "Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […]."

Etymology

From Middle English warssh, werisch, werische, werish, werissh, werssh, werysshe, of unknown origin; compare Modern English dialectal wairsh and Early Modern English wersh; perhaps related to Middle English wery (modern weary).

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