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offish
[aw-fish, of-ish]
adjective
Informal.
aloof; unapproachable; standoffish.
offish
/ ˈɒfɪʃ /
adjective
informal, aloof or distant in manner
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Other Word Forms
- offishly adverb
- offishness noun
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I let that down, baited, and I waited to see what sort offish I would catch.
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But the only man who takes an interest in him is an offish fellow named Fitzgerald.
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Within a couple of weeks of me moving in we went out for a meal, and as we came back he was basically quite offish with me, and I just didn't understand.
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Everybody went fishing and everybody caught a lot offish.
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With no other food coming into the city, the price offish was ten times what it had been before the war, and still rising.
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