yarrish
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From yar (“sour, brackish”) + -ish.
Adjective[edit]
yarrish (comparative more yarrish, superlative most yarrish)
- (UK dialectal, archaic) Having a rough, dry taste.
- 1900, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and transactions, volume 32:
- The others are of a dry or yarrish taste and mixd with Whitesour make an incomparable Cider.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “yarrish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.