longish
adjEtymology From long + -ish.
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Somewhat long.
- 1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, http://www.bartleby.com/364/294.html "How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave undone!)
- She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 16, in Klee Wyck:
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- It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.