skyish
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English skyyssh, equivalent to sky + -ish.
Adjective edit
skyish (comparative more skyish, superlative most skyish)
- Like the sky
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- the skyish head Of blue Olympus
- lofty; ethereal.
References edit
- “skyish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.