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tonish, tonnish, a. Now rare.|ˈtɒnɪʃ|
Also 8 ton-ish.
[f. ton3 + -ish1.]
Having ‘ton’; fashionable, modish, stylish. Hence ˈtonishly adv., ˈtonishness.
1778Crt. of Adultery 6 The finer features of a Ton-ish face. 1779F. Burney Diary 26 May, Lord Mordaunt,..a pretty, languid, tonnish young man. 1780Ibid. Apr., The young lady..half tonish, and half hoydenish. Ibid. May, Mrs. North, who is so famed for tonishness, exhibited herself in a more perfect undress than I ever before saw any lady..appear in. 1802Coleridge Lett. I. 368, I should be a thing in vogue,—the very tonish poet. 1804E. de Acton Tale without Title III. 14 Our elevated, spirited, and tonnish readers. 1825–9Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor I. vi. 242 The Dashwood family..spending their money in the most lavish and tonish style. 1872C. D. Warner Saunterings (1873) 11 A footman..wore the same colors; and the whole establishment was exceedingly tonnish. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Tonishly. |