Definitions

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  • adjective informal Approximately ninety
  • adjective informal Of about ninety years of age.

Etymologies

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ninety +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • He'd hound every ninetyish year old Republican he could find with fundraising letters asking them to show their faith in Our Leader by giving him money.

    WWKD 2005

  • He'd hound every ninetyish year old Republican he could find with fundraising letters asking them to show their faith in Our Leader by giving him money.

    Archive 2005-07-10 2005

  • He'd hound every ninetyish year old Republican he could find with fundraising letters asking them to show their faith in Our Leader by giving him money.

    07/10/2005 - 07/17/2005 2005

  • He hadn't mentioned that this time out, the Sinister Six were working for Gustav Fiers, a ninetyish, self-proclaimed "investor in chaos" who called himself the Gentleman-and who had been one of the most wanted international criminals in the world for much of the century just past.

    The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

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