nightish
adjEtymology From Middle English nyghtyssh, equivalent to night + -ish.
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Of or pertaining to night; nocturnal.
- c. 1565-1570, George Turberville, A Lover's Vow When hawks shall dread the silly fowl, / And men esteem the nightish owl
- Star light's nights twinkling. Moonlight is nightish, Sun makes day: […]1989, Edward Taylor, Donald E. Stanford, The Poems of Edward Taylor:
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- Nightish folk working their sleepingcity functions in the bright squares of office windows. People untouched by day, smugly snug. You wonder at this darker world of theirs. You grow querulous and bewildered.1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle:
- Related terms
- nightly