dullish
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English dullissh, equivalent to dull + -ish.
Adjective edit
dullish (comparative more dullish, superlative most dullish)
- Somewhat dull; dull to a degree.
- 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 121:
- Harry said "No.” Voted her dullish, and “cold like all blond women, with a touch, perhaps, of anæmia of the brain.”
Translations edit
somewhat dull
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