Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Insipid; flat; nauseous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Flat; insipid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
Tasteless or having an unpleasant taste;nauseous , sickly-sweet.
Etymologies
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From wallow + -ish.
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Examples
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I neede no allurement nor sawce, my stomacke is good enough to digest raw meat: And whereas with these preparatives and flourishes, or preambles, they thinke to sharpen my taste or stir my stomacke, they cloy and make it wallowish.
Of Bookes. 1909
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I neede no allurement nor sawce, my stomacke is good enough to digest raw meat: And whereas with these preparatives and flourishes, or preambles, they thinke to sharpen my taste or stir my stomacke, they cloy and make it wallowish.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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