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It's '60s-ish (though not in the Amy Winehouse / Mark Ronson way -- it's more pop-rock-ish, emphasis on the "ish") and semi-jaunty.

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  1. To go out; issue. The shippes were a-rived, and the knyghtes isseden owte, and alle the other peple. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 42.
  2. Issue; liberty and opportunity of going out.
  3. ish and entry. In Scots law, the clause “with free ish and entry,” in a charter, imports a right to all ways and passages, in so far as they may be necessary to kirk and market, through the adjacent grounds of the grantor, who is by the clause laid under that burden.

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  • Another reason for your mag's greatness this ish is the inside illustrations. —  August, 1947
  • It's '60s-ish (though not in the Amy Winehouse / Mark Ronson way -- it's more pop-rock-ish, emphasis on the "ish") and semi-jaunty. —  Poster Girl
  • The only thing about Wallace is that his injury history may make him look quite Laura Hughes-ish, which is a red flag right there. —  MVN
  • Lady Julia continues to be rather Amelia Peabody-ish, all take-charge-y and attitudinal, and Brisbane continues to be brilliant and just the right kind of tortured (he broods, but is also snarky and able to laugh on occasion -- like a cross between Sherlock Holmes, Radcliffe Emerson and Angel). —  bookshelves of doom
  • It sounds far less Call The Shots-ish which is good in my eyes.
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from Middle English ischen, isshen, issen, icen, from Old French issir, eissir, from Latin exire, go out: see exit and issue.
  2. from ish, v. Cf. issue, n.
 

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