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cloudish

adj

Etymology

From cloud + -ish.

  1. derived from *gel-✻ — “to ball up, clench”
  2. inherited from *klūtaz✻
  3. inherited from *klūt✻
  4. inherited from clūd — “mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”
  5. inherited from cloud
  6. suffixed as cloudish — “cloud + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a cloud or clouds

    Resembling a cloud or clouds; cloudly; cloudlike.

    • The boys move in cloudish groups, like schools of fish on the reef.

  2. Somewhat cloudy.

    • I just remember being on the trail and the sun seemed to be out—sort of cloudish, maybe somewhere around three or four in the afternoon.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cloudish. 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