backish
adjEtymology From back + -ish.
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Informal Somewhat at the back.
- After the offer is graciously accepted (their arms are bitten off!), the unlikely Hollywood owners wisely take a back-ish seat to the darkly witty Wrexham folk, who love their team almost as much as they love slagging them off: “He puts in the shift, doesn’t he?” “So do the postmen. You wouldn’t play them on the wing.”2022 August 28, Barbara Ellen, “The week in TV: House of the Dragon; The Accused: National Treasures on Trial; Welcome to Wrexham and more”, in The Guardian:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a vowel Somewhat or approximately back.
- The value of the Latin letter O was for a virtual certainty a mid, back, rounded vowel. If therefore this letter is used to render a vowel in a previously unwritten (ancient) language, […] it is to be inferred that the phoneme in question was probably some kind of middish, backish, rounded vowel, or more accurately, included such phones prominently in its allophonic range.2000, Andrew L. Sihler, Language History: An introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 196–197: