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Definition of "fairish" [fair•ish]

  • Of moderately large size or good quality. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fairish" in a sentence
  • "A dozen or so of men came in – fairish, with grey or hazel eyes – all friendly."
  • "After a bit, we mustered a varry nice pairty ov abaat a dozen, an 'as iverybody wor tawkin at once we managed to mak a fairish din."
  • "She had a curtain of fairish brown hair, the colour of underlay in fact."
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ear-catching
finlike gingery
gray-streaked
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single-bladed
softball-sized