goodish

goodish

English

Etymology

good +‎ -ish

Adjective

goodish (not comparable)

1. Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
   • 1933, George Orwell, chapter 33, in Down and Out in Paris and London‎:

     I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.

2. Considerable; goodly.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.

Translations

rather good than the contrary

Bulgarian: сносен (bg) (snosen)

Finnish: melko hyvä

References

• goodish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.