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cheerish

adj

Etymology

From cheer + -ish.

  1. derived from cara
  2. derived from chiere
  3. derived from chere
  4. inherited from chere
  5. suffixed as cheerish — “cheer + ish”

Definitions

  1. cheerful

    • The sunny South develops a different view of life, a different literature and a different art from the lightless North. Here a clear smiling sky and a joyful disposition in a cheerish mind, […]
    • Did you give a cheerful greeting to the boy who came along, / Or a cheerish sort of "howdy" and then vanish in the throng?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheerish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA