bluntish

English

Etymology

blunt +‎ -ish

Adjective

bluntish (comparative more bluntish, superlative most bluntish)

1. Somewhat blunt.
   • 1759, “Horsemanship”, in A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences‎^[1], volume 2, London: J. Coote, page 97:

     […] at nine years, the foremost teeth shew longer, yellower, and fouler than before; and the tushes become bluntish […]

   They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.

   • 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air‎^[2], Part I, Chapter 1:

     I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, “78, IV”, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

     The rather bluntish cast of his face was even blunter and plainer.

Derived terms

• bluntishly
• bluntishness