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waterish

[ waw-ter-ish, wot-er- ]

adjective

  1. somewhat, or tending to be, watery.


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Other Words From

  • water·ish·ly adverb
  • water·ish·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of waterish1

First recorded in 1520–30; water + -ish 1

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Example Sentences

If it be passionate it will be yellow; if melancholy, it will be black, and if phlegmatic, it will be waterish and whitish.

The lower part (of the town), he adds, standeth very waterish; the upper riseth with faire buildings.

Some thinke the Hasell would haue a chanily rocke, and the sallow, and eller a waterish marish.

The Sugar peare is an early peare, very sweete, but waterish.

Lydia Melford is too milk–and–waterish, but the two first–named are drawn with masterly precision and force.

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