mildishadj.
/ˈmʌɪldɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈmaɪldɪʃ/ Somewhat mild.
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1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner iii. xxxiii. 180 If the ridge is in any degree hot, and the weather mildish, they may be tiled up with a thick tile or piece of brick.
1802 J. Woodforde Diary 18 Apr. (1931) V. 384 I walked a little in the Garden, it being mildish.
1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 145 So they changed their cries of m'alegro for ‘Que lastima!’ (what a pity), a mildish reparation under the circumstances.
1884 J. R. Lowell Let. 17 Oct. (1904) III. 113 My address at Birmingham..has made a kind of (mildish) sensation.
1938 Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 417 The Jacksonian radical—once he came to the Supreme Court—turned out to be a mildish liberal.
1999 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 13 Mar. 14 What a week of weather we've had. The temptation to plant out after the dryish, mildish winter has been firmly crushed by the wettest week in months.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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