wispish
English
Etymology
wisp + -ish
Adjective
wispish (comparative more wispish, superlative most wispish)
- Wispy.
- 1888, Anna Bowman Dodd, Glorinda, Boston: Roberts Bros., Chapter 4, p. 55,
- The clouds, still faintly tinged with the sunrise glow, rolled like masses of tinted feathers over the low hill-tops, and rising from the ground there was the misty, wispish breath which the young day seemed to exhale from its soft bosom.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- text=Same blue serge dress she had two years ago, the nap bleaching. Seen its best days. Wispish hair over her ears. And that dowdy toque: three old grapes to take the harm out of it. Shabby genteel. She used to be a tasty dresser.
- 1928, Robert Byron, The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece, Chapter 12,
- His pinched face, with its wispish silver growths, bent pince-nez, cap crushed slightly on one side, and air of portentous, almost lunatic solemnity, lent itself to more than portraiture.
- 1888, Anna Bowman Dodd, Glorinda, Boston: Roberts Bros., Chapter 4, p. 55,