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Etymology

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sixty +‎ -ish

Adjective

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sixtyish (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Of about sixty years of age.
    • 1976 December 11, Don Shewey, “Bed, Fox and Fiddler: Stars in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 15:
      The role of Alma Millet, a sour sixty-ish sexless widow, offers Carol a chance to shed the bright-eyed and brainless image that served her so well in the past.