tolerablish
adjEtymology From tolerable + -ish.
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Archaic, Colloquial Somewhat tolerable.
- There was a good many there, and some on 'em learned to read very well, and some couldn't learn nohow. I got on tolerablish.1844, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, W. and R. Chambers, page 412:
- ‘Ay, ma'am, Betty do fight it out tolerablish,’ was the reply to this compliment.1857, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Dynevor terrace: or, The clue of life, Oxford University, page 29:
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- “I like it tolerablish when it's a pretty book, all about killing people,” said Robert.1882, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Pickle and his page-boy, or, Unlooked for, Oxford University, page 21: