goodish
English
Adjective
goodish (not comparable)
- Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
- 1933, George Orwell, chapter 33, in Down and Out in Paris and London:
- I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.
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- Considerable; goodly.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
References
- goodish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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