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  • adjective Somewhat sweet.

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  • adjective sort of or somewhat sweet.

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  • adjective somewhat sweet

Etymologies

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sweet +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • When it is down to 90° F. or 70° F., if the manure has a "sweetish" or

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

  • It is not that he doesn't love The Chaser and the edgy modern British television sitcoms like Blackbooks, Bottom, Extras, The Office ... it's just that, if he's the one who's going to be spreading the laughs around, he wants them to be "sweetish".

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • At least I still remember how to make my grandmother's infamous "sweetish" meatballs.

    Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories April E. Clark Post Independent Glenwood Springs 2010

  • Back then, I made enough "sweetish" meatballs and deviled eggs to feed a traveling carnival.

    Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories April E. Clark Post Independent Glenwood Springs 2010

  • "Yes, sir, the last thing was this here lady professional, getting up stern and kind of sweetish sad in her low-cut black dress to sing the song of songs.

    Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • I was vividly reminded that this historically significant California grape comes in a remarkable variety of styles -- from "white" Zins, which are really sweetish blush rosés; to raspberry and spicy flavored medium-bodied reds with a touch of pepper; to heavy-bodied, black-fruited, raisiny and pruney wines; all the way to very sweet late harvest and "port-style" Zins.

    Richard Jennings: Zinfandel Styles: Sublime to Ridiculous Richard Jennings 2012

  • Patients who needed urgent surgery four days after the quake with the sweetish fetid smell of infected open wounds everywhere in the air.

    Mark Hyman, MD: Haiti: The Rubble Remains, the Wounds Still Fester MD Mark Hyman 2011

  • Patients who needed urgent surgery four days after the quake with the sweetish fetid smell of infected open wounds everywhere in the air.

    Mark Hyman, MD: Haiti: The Rubble Remains, the Wounds Still Fester MD Mark Hyman 2011

  • There is just the one beer on draft, Berliner Kindl Pils 4.6%, a very light, straw-gold lager from BKS, a drinkable pilsner with a sweetish, vanilla malt character, if perhaps lacking a little bitterness in the finish.

    Around Berlin in 80 beers 2011

  • There is just the one beer on draft, Berliner Kindl Pils 4.6%, a very light, straw-gold lager from BKS, a drinkable pilsner with a sweetish, vanilla malt character, if perhaps lacking a little bitterness in the finish.

    Around Berlin in 80 beers 2011

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