neatish
adjEtymology From neat + -ish.
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Somewhat neat.
neatish
adj/ˈniːtɪʃ/
Etymology From Middle English netish, netiss, equivalent to neat (“bovine”) + -ish.
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Characteristic of or resembling a neat; bovine.
- We walked down and had a peep into the stables, saw a neatish hunter or two, and two mares, which appeared clippers.1841, The New Sporting Magazine, page 100:
- "Neatish horse," at length observed he, half to himself, half to our friend; "neatish horse — lightish of bone below the knee, […]"1858, Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, "Ask Mamma," Or, The Richest Commoner in England:
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- Alice is a neatish hack and a mover, but a little raw in her manners; […]1868, The Farmer's Magazine, page 127: