Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.
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- adjective colloquial Rather
fast .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Data costs about $0.05 per MB and it is pretty reliable and fastish I got about 380kbit/s connection speed.
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Data costs about $0.05 per MB and it is pretty reliable and fastish I got about 380kbit/s connection speed.
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Western Digital Caviar 250 HDs with 16 MB cache seem to occupy the sweet spot in performance/capacity/price trade off fastish, kinda big, crazy cheap.
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Michael Clarke, who scored a century on debut in the Bangalore test, was out LBW to a fastish delivery from Anil Kumble, which he tried to play on the back-foot, missed the line and was trapped in front.
Archive 2004-10-01 Chirayu 2004
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Michael Clarke, who scored a century on debut in the Bangalore test, was out LBW to a fastish delivery from Anil Kumble, which he tried to play on the back-foot, missed the line and was trapped in front.
Cricket: 2nd Test: End of 1st Day's Play Chirayu 2004
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A fastish yorker should settle Curtis's young hash.
The Head of Kay's 1928
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She's from Harwich; fastish, too, an 'hez good luck; but Dad he'd find fish in a graveyard.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He wur one o 'yo're handsome fastish chaps, an' he tired o 'me as men o' his stripe allers do tire o 'poor lasses, an'then he ill-treated me.
Surly Tim's Trouble 1872
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He wur one o 'yo're handsome fastish chaps, an' he tired o 'me as men o' his stripe allers do tire o 'poor lasses, an' then he ill-treated me.
Surly Tim's Trouble 1872
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Pretty fastish they grinds, and they goes faster when the wind's gusty.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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