Definition of "fortyish" [fortyish]

• Close to the number forty (adjective)
• About forty years old. (adjective)
• Any number close to forty. (noun)

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• "Spade was at a table set for afternoon tea when the fortyish matron entered from Spokane's Sprague Avenue."
• "Lots of Baby Boomers were fortyish and wanted to hang on to what was left of their youth and vitality."
• "She said her name was Mary Mallon, and described her as fortyish, tall, heavy, Irish from Ireland, in perfect health, and not known to have ever had an attack of the typhoid."