Definitions
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- noun colloquial Any time close to
nine o'clock .
Etymologies
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nine + -ish
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Examples
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Not much happened after that, Rachel came down with some food for me about nineish and I checked and recast the rods around midnight.
British Blogs 2009
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“Seriously, Superintendent, if you want my intuitive stab at it, I’d say between nineish and midnight, or perhaps nine and one o’clock.”
Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995
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