lamish

English

Etymology

lame +‎ -ish

Adjective

lamish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat lame.
    • 1855, The new sporting magazine (page 446)
      I was rather puzzled about Wild Dayrell's chance at first, when a big light horse, with "P" on the sheets and a lamish hock, passed me; but I soon found out my error, and joined the cortige of the real Simon Pure.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lamish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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