yarrish
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.