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sylphish

adj

Etymology

From sylph + -ish.

  1. derived from sylvestris
  2. derived from sylphes
  3. suffixed as sylphish — “sylph + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a sylph

    Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.

    • All these on a neck of snow slight-tinged with rose-bloom, and within it royal Life: amidst the blaze of lustres ; in sylphish movements, espiegleries, coquetries, and minuet-mazes[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sylphish. 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