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orphanish

adj

Etymology

From orphan + -ish.

  1. derived from *h₃órbʰos✻
  2. derived from ὀρφανός
  3. derived from orphanus
  4. suffixed as orphanish — “orphan + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an orphan.

    • I must have seemed pathetic to her, with my orphanish clothes and chalky fingers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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