Definitions
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- adjective informal Approximately
eighty - adjective informal Of about
eighty years of age.
Etymologies
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eighty + -ish
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Examples
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Nice surprises came in yesterday at the comics store: an eightyish-page interview with Alan Moore as a stand-alone volume called _Alan Moore Spells It Out_, and another volume collecting reprints of _The Birth Caul_, _Snakes and Ladders_, a previously published thirtyish-page interview Eddie Campbell did with Moore, and new content sketchbook of working drawings for _Snakes and Ladders_.
what's your story? badger 2006
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That would have been a little hard to explain to the Chief, seeing as said elbower had been an eightyish old lady with blue hair.
Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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