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sillyish

adj

Etymology

From silly + -ish.

  1. inherited from *sālīg✻
  2. inherited from sǣliġ
  3. inherited from seely
  4. suffixed as sillyish — “silly + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat silly.

    • We were all infinitely good humoured, but rather sillyish; for every one was full of themselves, though each asked questions of the other, about which they did not care a pinch of snuff to be informed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sillyish. 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