dankish
English
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editdankish (comparative more dankish, superlative most dankish)
- Somewhat dank.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.