2010年10月4日 · If I said something is car-ish or table-ish, it would sound quite informal, though understandable. I maintain that the distinction is really whether the word is established or …

2011年4月1日 · @JanusBahsJacquet when used as the terminal part of a word, it's easy to argue that "ish" is an adjectivising suffix. But when hyphenated, it's normally understood, at least to …

2020年10月18日 · Ish kabibble. From "What Do You Mean by Ish Ka Bibble?" in the Rock Island [Illinois] Argus (January 2, 1914): "Ish ka bibble" is western slang of Yiddish or, rather, German …

The -ish suffix can be appended to adjectives to postmodify them. This may give rise to a totally acceptable word (reddish, coolish, fairish), a word that has an obvious meaning but is not …

There is a post on the Omniglot blog that uses this exact example of -ish > ish: Degrammaticalization, a word I stumbled across on this blog today, is the process through …

2014年11月30日 · Yes, ish is a very flexible-ish suffix that is used to form nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and slang. Origin: From Old English (-isc); Old Norse (-iskr); to Greek ( …

2014年12月7日 · -ish: resembling, like, having some attributes of. Check out Unpack Your Adjectives. It's not a definitive source by any means, but it does mention and illustrate 'boyish'. …

2011年1月28日 · 'ish' is added to some words to denote 'sort of'. For example: He was tall-ish. Means he was tall, but not extremely so. Taller than average, but not basketball-player tall. I'm …

A related use of -ish is to indicate "almost", particularly when paired with an adjective: cleverish, tallish, smallish, darkish, etc. (This is slightly different from approximation in that fortyish would …

2019年8月11日 · Ish would be pronounced to rhyme with "dish" and isn't a sound/word I've ever heard (except when meaning "approximately"). – Chappo Hasn't Forgotten Commented Aug …