Definitions
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- adverb informal After a numeral, denotes a time of around the start of that hour.
Etymologies
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o'clock + -ish
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Examples
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The really dangerous time was after four o'clockish, when the streets began to fill up with marauding packs of publishers and agents, maddened with fettucine and kir and baying for cabs.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988
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I had to go and drink up a big vanilla ice coffee yesterday bout 4 o'clockish!!!!
BooMama 2009
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