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  • adjective Somewhat thick.

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  • adjective Somewhat thick.

Etymologies

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thick +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Slice carefully in thickish slices, and arrange on a plate.

    "Turkey Treat" 1966/2005 Lindy 2005

  • Serve the ham in thickish slices with the parsley sauce.

    Nigel Slater's classic boiled gammon and parsley sauce 2011

  • Tall and striking, with thickish black hair later showing a signature white streak at the front, she was the beautiful young woman every male graduate student regretted not having had a tumble with, a fantasy that would have been difficult to arrange since she was, with only an occasional lapse, a lesbian.

    A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011

  • Inside, she knows, there is a bed, a broken whiskey bottle, and a thickish drunken GI trying to dress himself.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Chicago is also a region where "my turn signal is on" means "I'm coming over RIGHT NOW whether you move or not": on the highways in thickish traffic you'll be lucky if you get three blinks out of someone before they cut into your lane sharply.

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • Remove the crusts from the bread, cut into thickish slices then into rectangular strips (like soldiers for your boiled egg), cutting one piece into a disc to fit the bottom of the basin.

    Nigel Slater's chicken, basil mayonnaise and summer plum pudding recipes 2010

  • The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down– from high flat temples–in a point on his forehead.

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Norman Finkelstein’s Amazing Jawline 2010

  • Inside, she knows, there is a bed, a broken whiskey bottle, and a thickish drunken GI trying to dress himself.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down– from high flat temples–in a point on his forehead.

    Norman Finkelstein’s Amazing Jawline 2010

  • Inside, she knows, there is a bed, a broken whiskey bottle, and a thickish drunken GI trying to dress himself.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

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