fortyish
English
Etymology
forty + -ish
Adjective
fortyish
- Close to the number forty
- About forty years old.
Numeral
fortyish
- Any number close to forty.
- 1993, Quarterly bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, volume 61-62, Alpine Garden Society (Great Britain), page 348:
- One problem it drops in our laps is to have developed all fortyish of its species within our temperate area, from the Falklands to the central temperate Andes.
- 2003, Randall Robinson, The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other:
- A great many black men are Mark Lawrence's age (fortyish), height (six-two-ish), weight (one-seventy-ish), and complexion (a reddish medium brown) that hints of a childhood of freckles and umber-red hair
- 2004, Jean Lau Chin, The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination, page 46:
- In my day, more often than not, you had to break rank to join the very few fortyish-aged women (renegades) promoted
- 2006, Harold F. Kratch, One Soldier's Memories, page 109:
- The day was cloudy, and the temperature was about fortyish.
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Related terms
- fortysome
- fortysomething