wispish

English

Etymology

wisp +‎ -ish

Adjective

wispish (comparative more wispish, superlative most wispish)

1. Wispy.
   • 1888, Anna Bowman Dodd, chapter 4, in Glorinda‎^[1], Boston: Roberts Bros, page 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:

     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, chapter 12, in The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece‎^[2]:

     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.