-ishsuffix
uk/ -ɪʃ/us/ -ɪʃ/-ish suffix (FROM PLACE)
used to form adjectives and nouns that say what country or area a person, thing, or language comes from:
Spanish dancing
Are you English?
I've always liked the Irish (= people from Ireland).
Do you speak Swedish?
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Countries, nationalities & continents: nationalities
- Afghan
- Alaskan
- Albanian
- Algerian
- an
- Ghanaian
- Gibraltarian
- Greenlander
- Greenlandic
- Grenadian
- North American
- North Korean
- Northern Irish
- NRI
- Omani
- Welshman
- Welshwoman
- Yemeni
- Yugoslav
- Yugoslavian
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-ish suffix (LIKE)
used to form adjectives that say what a person, thing, or action is like:
foolish
childish
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Similar and the same
- a level playing field idiom
- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- approach
- clock
- difference
- equal
- every inch idiom
- firm
- homogeneous
- homogenous
- identical
- inch
- Rome
- same
- same difference idiom
- same old same old idiom
- sameness
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-ish suffix (QUITE)
used to form adjectives to give the meaning to some degree; fairly:
He had a sort of reddish beard.
She was oldish - about 60, I'd say.
We'll start at sevenish (= about seven o'clock).
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Approximate
- (a) sort of idiom
- about
- approx
- approximate
- approximately
- effect
- in the vicinity of idiom
- loosely
- maybe
- more
- more or less idiom
- or so idiom
- round
- rule
- sense
- something
- something like 96 percent, half, etc. idiom
- somewhere
- sort
- sorta
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