| 释义 |
oldish, a.|ˈəʊldɪʃ|
[f. old a. + -ish1.]
Somewhat old.
1668–9Pepys Diary 20 Feb., She is an oldish French woman. 1775F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 56 Miss Lake..is a very obliging and sweet-tempered, oldish maid. 1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. III. 120 A common cotton gown, an oldish black bonnet. 1855Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 47 Time is slipping away, and we are getting oldish. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 189 An oldish woman, a character, who worked me a book-marker. |