Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slightly; to a small extent; in some degree.
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- adverb colloquial
Slightly ; to a smallextent ; in somedegree .
Etymologies
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From rather + -ish.
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Examples
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Whatever we may have felt about her lately, -- and I confess there have been times when the declaration of the Fee-Faw-Fum giant of nursery-romance seemed to be of a moral and praiseworthy character, -- there is no doubt, that, in the year of grace of which I write, and in the regards of many ratherish-scholarly gentlemen of our country-towns, the British Islands were the nearest terrestrial correspondences to the Islands of the
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