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  • adjective Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

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  • adjective Somewhat common or vulgar.

Etymologies

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common +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Name and shame until we get a commonish usage policy.

    Update: who blocks? at Helpful Technology 2009

  • There was an actress named Humby about that time it's a commonish surname but I can't make any links or find evidence of other uses like this.

    February 2007 2007

  • There was an actress named Humby about that time it's a commonish surname but I can't make any links or find evidence of other uses like this.

    The Culture of Sewing, edited by Barbara Burman - A Dress A Day 2007

  • My beloved and utterly unique hubby has, nonetheless, a commonish name, cause 803 people in the US have it.

    Nope. I Do Not Believe There's Another Mir Mirtika 2006

  • My beloved and utterly unique hubby has, nonetheless, a commonish name, cause 803 people in the US have it.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Mirtika 2006

  • "His mother you know, was a commonish sort of person"

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • And after all a wench is a commonish sort of a object, and even the wench the lad's in love with is

    Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

  • Spiraea belloides, commonish on limestone rocks in the ravine near the road which leads from Tazeen valley to

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • But Mrs. Farnham remained silent, only muttering over "a very commonish sort of person indeed," and with hound-like reluctance, Salina retreated backward, step by step, to her position at the door.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • He was a commonish man in black with a band round his bowler hat; he had something of Fanny's clumsy look; he wore a stubbly moustache, and had a cockney accent.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

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