jadish

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English

Etymology

jade +‎ -ish

Adjective

jadish (comparative more jadish, superlative most jadish)

  1. (of a horse) Vicious and ill-tempered, like a jade.
  2. (of a woman) unchaste
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for jadish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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