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fairish

American  
[fair-ish] / ˈfɛər ɪʃ /

adjective

  1. moderately good, large, or well.

    a fairish income.

  2. moderately light in color.

    a fairish complexion.


fairish British  
/ ˈfɛərɪʃ /

adjective

  1. moderately good, well, etc

  2. (of the hair, complexion, etc) moderately light in colour

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of fairish

First recorded in 1605–15; fair 1 + -ish 1


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Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fairish number of "parents" are disposed of before Lieberman finally catches up with and confronts the wicked Mengele in a Pennsylvania farmhouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is a fat young man with fairish curly hair and an important bearing.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

There are the evening papers; or perhaps you'll be interested by those cabinet bits—jades and scarabs and junk of that sort; a few fairish pieces of Greek glass—that Tanagra isn't bad, nor those Limoges enamels.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

I always fancied Ghosts could fly— If not exactly in the sky, Yet at a fairish height.”

From Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll

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