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Is this what Fergie calls a strongish team with some young ones in?

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2010

Lastly, “You have to have strongish lungs to blow out the air to push the seed out,” he said.

From Washington Post

Also like Glenna, she has the wrist and forearm of a strongish man.

From Time Magazine Archive

A determined Verticity and a disponent Faculty are what arrange magneticks, not a force, attracting them or pulling them together, nor merely a strongish coition or unition.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Melons.—Use strongish maiden loam by itself to grow them.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by Keane, William