smartishadj.adv.

1738 J. Constable Conversat. of Gentlemen vi. 225 One easily finds out such Men in Company..by their often repeating the smartish sort of a Saying, upon which they chanced to stumble.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xx. 50 Two Pair of ordinary blue Worsted Hose, that make a smartish Appearance, with white Clocks.

1807 J. Austen Let. 9 Feb. (1995) 121 I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials.

1831 T. Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) II. 231 I received rather a smartish spat on my shoulder from an unseen stick.

1881 Austral. Grazier's Guide (S. W. Silver & Co.) II. xviii. 93 The best way is to have a smartish steady youngster as assistant to him.

1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio i. i. 12 There was a rider on a beautiful bay mare coming up at a smartish lope.

1984 Listener 24 May 25/1 The newly-weds, through upbringing and occupation involved with a smartish intellectual set, were in a year or two even more deeply involved in left-wing politics.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) v. 114 From the outside it could have been your everyday, all-corners-style pub but inside it was indubitably a winebar, catering to a smartish crowd.

1799 R. Warner Let. 4 Sept. in Walk Western Counties (1800) 65 What with smartish work,..I began to find my legs give out.

1858 T. Hughes Scouring of White Horse 18 Pretty nigh ever since King Alfred's time, which I reckon is a smartish time ago.

1910 South Bucks Free Press 4 Feb. 3/3 The trench was a deep one, and there was a smartish bit of rubbish in it.

1770 J. Jones in Copies Depositions of Witnesses in Divorce Lord Grosvenor (1771) 200 The said gentleman..was dressed smartish, much more so than the duke, or those with him.

1793 J. O'Keeffe World in Village iv. ii. 55 But I must dress terrible smartish—with the ecclat of her fortune, I shall indeed be a physician.

1839 Med. Times 2 Nov. 47/3 I shall be regularly knocked up if I don't pitch in pretty smartish.

1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 218 Smartish, adj. and adv., fairly well. ‘How are you?’ ‘Smartish, thank you.’ ‘I'm getting on smartish now.’

1955 ‘Miss Read’ Village School iv. 34 Coke's going down pretty smartish. Shouldn't be surprised if we don't get a letter from the Office the way we gets through it.

1979 N. Freeling Widow xiii. 79 Whip out smartish to the Italian grocer.

2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! xv. 164 I fuck off smartish too, knowing that if any boer finds these things on Koelie..I can just say I don't know this man at all and he's lying.

1808 S. W. Ryley Itinerant I. x. 173 I beheld rather a smartish looking group of pedestrians, coming down the hill.

1899 Windsor Mag. 10 330/2 ‘What kind of a lookin' man is he?’ ‘Smartish looking, but no beauty.’

1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club viii. 96 ‘Yes, sir,’ agreed the other driver, a smartish-looking man with a keen profile and a sharp eye.

2003 Spectator (Nexis) 17 May 20 In one refuse shed we found a smartish-looking suitcase which must..have belonged to an innocent passer-by.