Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Fairly new.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rather new.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat new; nearly new.
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- adjective informal Somewhat
new
Etymologies
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Examples
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The battle of the sexes, (c. 1918 – c. 2007), the colorful dialects, the familiar supernatural characters in newish situations, the punishments meted out by omnipotent powers, these all are equally interesting. bc Says:
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Anway … Wouldn’t statewide school districts alleviate some of the problems current school districts have with either a shortage of classrooms (in newish suburbs) or a surplus (central cities, older suburbs)?
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Anway … Wouldn’t statewide school districts alleviate some of the problems current school districts have with either a shortage of classrooms (in newish suburbs) or a surplus (central cities, older suburbs)?
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Commemorating - surprise, surprise - the 8,000th batch of beer they've brewed, Bell's uses the opportunity to serve up what I think can be best described as a newish category of beer - the American Strong Ale.
Bell's Batch 8,000 Ale jkd 2007
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Commemorating - surprise, surprise - the 8,000th batch of beer they've brewed, Bell's uses the opportunity to serve up what I think can be best described as a newish category of beer - the American Strong Ale.
Archive 2007-09-01 jkd 2007
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The result is that new and "newish" homes are now more of a bargain than they usually are and are likely to be in a year or two, once the housing market has recovered.
Suburb vs. Exurb June Fletcher 2010
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I'm not convinced that a bunch of women submitting stories to F&SF all at once is the best way to get more of our stories bought, or to prove any sort of meaningful editorial bias or unbias ... especially since there will likely only be a few slots for "newish" or "unknown" writers open at the time anyway.
Wow! nihilistic_kid 2006
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I'm not convinced that a bunch of women submitting stories to F&SF all at once is the best way to get more of our stories bought, or to prove any sort of meaningful editorial bias or unbias ... especially since there will likely only be a few slots for "newish" or "unknown" writers open at the time anyway.
ccfinlay: Wow! ccfinlay 2006
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And from what I think I understand, it's not easy to get into ArmadilloCon as a "newish" writer.
Oh, CRAP! But GOOD Crap... reudaly 2005
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I write "newish" as the idea first appeared about a year ago but it only started to gain common usage about six months ago, and the reason I mention it is that most people have no idea what it's all about.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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