fairish
Collocations
4ADJ.
last, pretty
VERB + FAIRISH
breed, encounted, make, search
FAIRISH + NOUN
amount, benjamin
ADV.
ever, modestly
Definitions
adj
Of moderate quality, size, etc.
Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, [...]
Lord bless you, I know all the breeders about here; they are not a bad set, and they breed a very fairish set of horses, but they are not like what their fathers were, nor are their horses like their fathers' horses .
In reasonable health and spirits, but not great.
Lord Loam (To Tompsett, as they partake of tea together): And how are all at home? Tompsett: Fairish, my lord,
" How are you, Mudge –all right?" "Fairish much obliged to you for lugging me home .My man told me."
Used as a mile intensifier
Then I went and fetched him; though I had the deuce of a bother making the coppers believe that he was my brother—you see he was in a fairish mess, but he did look like a gentleman, which is more than I do nowadays.
'It seems you'll find a fairish mess out in Austria,' said Basil.
Of reasonable fairness; even-handed or equitable, but probably not as good as one wants.
This was a. fairish judgement, he thought, if hard.·
'It's a. fairish price, ' he said grudgingly.
Mostly mild and clement.
Fairish all day but clouded all over at 6 p.m.
"Well, well," he went on slowly, "a fairish day–a bit frost coming. Nelse says there'll be snow up the Lake diveesion, late as it is."
noun
A fairy.
Next day, Kathy took the potato her mother gave her, and gnawing it all to the heart, she set out upon her search for the fairish, munching at the half-raw core as she went her way. She found the fairish waiting by the bog, with her lap full of berries, and some mealy roots, like sweet, boiled radishes.
' Fairishes! Oh Lard!' she vociferated. 'Fairishes! Don't look at dem, your honour - oh, don't! As sure as you live you'll break your leg inside of a week if you looks dat em.'
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored
adjective — not excessive or extreme
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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6Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, [...]
WiktionaryLord bless you, I know all the breeders about here; they are not a bad set, and they breed a very fairish set of horses, but they are not like what their fathers were, nor are their horses like their
Wiktionary"I did pretty fairish," replied Benjamin, modestly
WiktionaryNext day, Kathy took the potato her mother gave her, and gnawing it all to the heart, she set out upon her search for the fairish, munching at the half-raw core as she went her way. She found the fair
Wiktionary' Fairishes! Oh Lard!' she vociferated. 'Fairishes! Don't look at dem, your honour - oh, don't! As sure as you live you'll break your leg inside of a week if you looks dat em.'
WiktionaryYears back, the housekeeper says, her mother encounted the "last fairish" that ever was seen in the hollow.
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