orphanish

adj

orphanish

adj

Etymology From orphan + -ish.

1

Resembling or characteristic of an orphan.

  • I must have seemed pathetic to her, with my orphanish clothes and chalky fingers.2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 88:

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