airish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of airish
Example Sentences
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"It's airish up hyar, ain't it?" he cried.
From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Fraser, Malcolm
She is just like what I was afraid she would be stand-offish and airish.
From Three Little Cousins by Blanchard, Amy Ella
Nora often tells us that it isn't "good form" to do this; and sometimes, when she's in an airish mood, she calls us "a pack of kissers,"—as if that were something dreadful.
From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Yechton, Barbara, [pseud.]
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