birthdayish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

birthday +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

birthdayish (comparative more birthdayish, superlative most birthdayish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a birthday.
    • 1939, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside:
      What was that gleaming greenly on Mother's hand? A ring . . . Dad's present. All very well, but rings were common things . . . even Sissy Flagg had one. But a pearl necklace! “A necklace is such a nice birthdayish thing,” said Mother.
    • 2015, Nancy Buckingham, Return to Vienna:
      I unpacked the parcels at once with an eager birthdayish feeling.

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