单词 | newish |
释义 | newishadj. Somewhat new; fairly new. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > somewhat new newish1570 freshish1740 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miiv/1 Newish, recentulus. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §46 It drinketh not newish at all. 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. xvi. 198 Something that seems truish and newish. 1824 A. Headley in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1858) II. 27 I like everything about the place but the newish church. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 282 We ascended..[a] narrow newish wooden staircase. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 244 A small, newish, switching-engine, with a little step in front of his bumper-timber. 1960 News Chron. 12 Sept. 6/1 The dress is from a newish range for the petite. 1998 I. Rankin Hanging Garden (1999) xxviii. 313 Seconds later, a newish Jaguar..cruised to a stop beside them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1570 |
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