释义 |
-ish suffix- added to an adjective or phrase to form a less precise adjective, or to suggest a vaguer, often wider, interpretation of the proceeding adjective or phrase UK, 1815
- I’m quite agnostic on whether the great figure [in the Millennium Dome] is maleish, femaleish or nothingish at all. — Minister Without Portfolio Peter Mandelson, BBC News, 23 February 1998
- added to a proper name to form an adjective UK, 1845
- No, the Blair doctrine is not in the neo-conservative lexicon of the White House, though Bush sometimes borrows Blairish words as camouflage. — The Guardian, 16 April 2003
|