cheerish
adjEtymology From cheer + -ish.
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Rare cheerful
- The sunny South develops a different view of life, a different literature and a different art from the lightless North. Here a clear smiling sky and a joyful disposition in a cheerish mind, […]1902, Light, volume 2, page 93:
- Did you give a cheerful greeting to the boy who came along, / Or a cheerish sort of "howdy" and then vanish in the throng?1930, Journal of Education, volumes 111-112, page 425:
- Derived terms
- cheerishness