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  1. Of or pertaining to winter; wintry.

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  1. adj. Characteristic of winter.

Examples

  • “If you are planning to be on Victoria from 7 th to 4th, or on 4th from Victoria to Dominion, you are encouraged to wear something that is "winterish".”

    Opinion 250: News

  • “The dissonance between the winterish associations of oranges at home, and the soft, warm evening air in San José was as pleasant as anything I can remember, surfacing an idle longing for clove-studded peel drying in the stove, for chilled orange segments with Medjoul dates, ginger and clotted cream and slow mornings of coffee and oranges.”

    Coffee and Oranges

  • “If you're used to thinking of lima beans as only being for winterish soups, check out how Chris brings them into a new season.”

    Cooking with Herbs, Plants, Veggies, and Flowers: WHB #127

  • “JACQUI JERAS, CNN, METEOROLOGIST: Looking actually a little winterish across some parts of the west.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2007

  • “I wish I had clones to go do the Christmas Shopping ooops I mean, holiday or winterish shopping, I know how sensitive some of you anti-religionists get, just kidding around I need to do.”

    The Office of Sternberg Coddling - The Panda's Thumb

  • “The warm autumn day slid slowly but exorably into a winterish chill.”

    A Winter Haunting

  • “Dale had time to notice her truck parked in the frozen mud turnaround, notice that the snow was mostly gone and that the day was sunny in its weak, winterish way, and then he closed and locked the door behind Michelle.”

    A Winter Haunting

  • “-- I think the appearance this morning is as winterish as any I can remember, earth, houses, trees, all covered with snow, which began to fall yesterday morning & continued falling all last night.”

    Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771

  • “At noon of that day a winterish storm was upon us from the nor'west.”

    Sailing Alone Around the World

  • “Laura & I sat an old Goose this evening, and I think she acted her name to perfection about the nest we fixed for her - how cold today, it is real winterish.”

    Diary of Belle Edmondson, January - November, 1864,

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