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nudish

adj

Etymology

From nude + -ish.

  1. derived from nūdus
  2. inherited from nud
  3. suffixed as nudish — “nude + ish”

Definitions

  1. More or less nude

    More or less nude; wearing very few clothes.

    • I bumped into a nudish figure round a corner who informed the Agent in a disgusted voice that “someone'as bin an' pinched a raincoat o' mine; they aren't 'arf nippy, give yer my word.”
    • One injured editor recently defended a recent jacket of a nudish girl by saying: “We don't show the nipples — she's got on no less than they wear in nightclubs!”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nudish. 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