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evenish

adj

Etymology

From even + -ish. Compare Saterland Frisian ieuwenske (“next to, along side of, beside”).

  1. inherited from efne
  2. inherited from evene
  3. inherited from efnan
  4. inherited from evenen
  5. inherited from *h₁émnos✻ — “equal, straight; flat, level, even”
  6. inherited from *ebnaz✻
  7. inherited from *ebn✻
  8. inherited from efn — “flat; level, even, equal”
  9. inherited from even
  10. suffixed as evenish — “even + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat even.

    • With paintbrushes and bourbons in hand and cigarettes clamped between our teeth we spent a happy week or so covering ourselves and the boat in an evenish coat of yellow paint. At the time, ideas like that seemed normal, sensible even.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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