bluntish
adjEtymology From blunt + -ish.
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Somewhat blunt.
- They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.
- […] at nine years, the foremost teeth shew longer, yellower, and fouler than before; and the tushes become bluntish […]1759, “Horsemanship”, in A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences, volume 2, London: J. Coote, page 97:
2 more examples
- I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath.1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, Part I, Chapter 1:
- The rather bluntish cast of his face was even blunter and plainer.1950, Mervyn Peake, “78, IV”, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
- Derived terms
- bluntishly, bluntishness