evenish

English

Alternative forms

• even-ish

Etymology

From even +‎ -ish. Compare Saterland Frisian ieuwenske (“next to, along side of, beside”).

Adjective

evenish (comparative more evenish, superlative most evenish)

1. Somewhat even.
   • 1845, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review:

     On the score of quality, some very in-and-out trials since tend to make the thirty-one exhibitors rather an evenish class, although to the eye it is long since a finer or more racing-looking lot ever came out ; Newmarket's pride, too, unquestionably having the best of it, both in the gifts of nature and the assistance of art.

   • 2011, Paul Copperwaite, The Mammoth Book of Drug Barons:

     With paintbrushes and bourbons in hand and cigarettes clamped between our teeth we spent a happy week or so covering ourselves and the boat in an evenish coat of yellow paint. At the time, ideas like that seemed normal, sensible even.

Synonyms

• evenlike

Anagrams

• heveins