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  • adjective informal Of about seventy years of age.

Etymologies

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seventy +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • When a seventyish man slowly jogged past me, I decided to use him to set my pace.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • When a seventyish man slowly jogged past me, I decided to use him to set my pace.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • Due to being sedentary and seventyish, I walked a slow, 13,114 regular steps today along the curb as many of the streets in my neighborhood have few sidewalks.

    Surgeon General recommends you walk a minimum of 10,000 steps or five miles daily 2009

  • Regan and Jack had spoken to the seventyish woman, a well-known patron of the arts, during the cocktail hour.

    Laced Carol Higgins Clark 2007

  • This time out, Rhodes is faced with the apparent slip-and-fall death of seventyish neighbor Helen Harris.

    Texas Monthly Gets It. I Think. Bill Crider 2007

  • Regan and Jack had spoken to the seventyish woman, a well-known patron of the arts, during the cocktail hour.

    Laced Carol Higgins Clark 2007

  • One Response on August 20, 2007 at 7:54 am | Reply naomi dagen bloom can i really, truly accept that going like sixty is part of my past? sometimes seventyish recalls those times but one day of it requires refueling the next one.

    Going like sixty « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2007

  • Regan and Jack had spoken to the seventyish woman, a well-known patron of the arts, during the cocktail hour.

    Laced Carol Higgins Clark 2007

  • Regan and Jack had spoken to the seventyish woman, a well-known patron of the arts, during the cocktail hour.

    Laced Carol Higgins Clark 2007

  • This time out, Rhodes is faced with the apparent slip-and-fall death of seventyish neighbor Helen Harris.

    Archive 2006-12-31 Bill Crider 2006

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