Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Somewhat blunt.

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  • adjective Somewhat blunt.

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  • adjective Somewhat blunt.

Etymologies

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blunt +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • To begin with it was really hard to knit, due to using bluntish metal needles, but I went through my collection and came up with some wooden DPNs which make it much easier to work.

    Loden Mist - the first sleeve Penny 2008

  • To begin with it was really hard to knit, due to using bluntish metal needles, but I went through my collection and came up with some wooden DPNs which make it much easier to work.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Penny 2008

  • About three feet long, blade broad on top and not tapering much to a bluntish point, it had a short, straight iron guard and a wide, flat-bottomed pommel rounded like a scoop of ice cream.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • Rhizome short with membranous, orange or brown scales having a few bluntish teeth on each edge.

    The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

  • The flowers are 1in. to 1½in. long, and about as much across when open, of a fine purple colour, with a shining satiny appearance; the six transparent petal-like divisions are of uneven form, having short bluntish points; from the openness of the corolla the stamens and style are well exposed, and they are very beautiful.

    Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

  • He patted the brown Waler, who pricked his sagacious ears and threw up his handsome bluntish head in acknowledgment of his master's caress.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • = -- Buds 1/8-1/4 inch long, bluntish to pointed, conspicuously clustered at ends of branches.

    Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860

  • The tattoo was remarkable as amongst the tribes of the lower Zambeze. 57 There were waistcoats, epaulettes, braces and cross-belts of huge welts, and raised polished lumps which must have cost not a little suffering; the skin is pinched up between the fingers and sawn across with a bluntish knife, the deeper the better; various plants are used as styptics, and the proper size of the cicatrice is maintained by constant pressure, which makes the flesh protrude from the wound.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • his writing is interesting. . . feels bluntish . . .

    Cheeseburger Gothic » We shoulda put a bet on! 2010

  • a squamulate appearance to it; when narrowly examined, just above the rather large and bluntish scutellum, there are some distinct scattered punctures; thorax beneath covered with fulvous hairs.

    Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

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