fairish

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."

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.'