footballish

English

Etymology

football +‎ -ish

Adjective

footballish (not comparable)

1. Having the physical characteristics associated with an American football player; being large and muscular.
   • 1942, William Page Harbeson, History of the Tau Chapter of Psi Upsilon, page 112:

     Don Torrey gives the picture originally of a shaggy-headed footballish fellow making a slave of the old piano.

   • 1962, Harry Allen Smith, To Hell in a Handbasket, page 127:

     He was a big handsome footballish guy who quoted love poems by Kipling and these poems were not at all like other poems, such as Hiawatha and The Cremation of Sam McGee and Casey at the Bat and Little Orphant Annie.

   • 2000, R.F. Dietrich, The Final Solution: A Novel for the End of Days, page 29:

     Debating the point was the fraternity's chief sadist, the aforementioned “Kluman the Obnoxious,” Kluman of the bulging malevolent black eyes, swarthy scowl, dark bass voice, and footballish build and disposition.