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slackish

adj

Etymology

From slack + -ish.

  1. inherited from *slakaz✻
  2. inherited from slæc — “slack”
  3. inherited from slak
  4. suffixed as slackish — “slack + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat slack.

    • He is shabbily smart, and looks what he is, a slackish, hard-drinking unsuccessful man of forty-two.
    • A slackish kicking strap allows the top of the mainsail to fall off forward in the heaviest gusts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slackish. 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