Not talking about its historical existence, but referring the modern resurgence of the word influenced by the mainstream media. Since some of my coworkers and friends have been using the word recently, I wonder what program or show they must’ve watched before adopting the word in their daily dialogue.
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Pretty simple actually. -ish, as a suffix, means “having the qualities of”. For example “apish” is similar to “ape-like”.
Because of that it works to make adjectives based on other nouns and adjectives in the same manner, with adjectives like colors becoming an approximation of the original adjective.
“Yellowish” is “kind of yellow” or “yellow-like”.
It’s only a matter of time before we use it for all sorts of approximations, like “thirty-ish” for “around 30”. Or even as a response, like “Is he friendly?” “…-ish…”
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