modish

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mode

Proto-Indo-European *-iskos

Proto-Germanic *-iskaz

Proto-West Germanic *-isk

Old English -isċ

Middle English -ish

English -ish

English modish

From mode + -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊdɪʃ/

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Adjective

modish (comparative more modish, superlative most modish)

1. Conforming with fashion or style.
   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 83:

     As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

2. In the current mode.

Derived terms

• modishly
• modishness
• unmodish

Anagrams

• domish