Definitions
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- adjective Somewhat thick.
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- adjective Somewhat
thick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Slice carefully in thickish slices, and arrange on a plate.
"Turkey Treat" 1966/2005 Lindy 2005
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Serve the ham in thickish slices with the parsley sauce.
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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
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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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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.
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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
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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
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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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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.
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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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