sweetish
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswiːtɪʃ/
- Homophone: Swedish (flapping)
Adjective
sweetish (comparative more sweetish, superlative most sweetish)
- somewhat sweet (all senses)
- 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, page 46:
- At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.
- 2009, Jeffrey Poppy, Jeff, the Roofer, Reflections of a Double Negative Life:
- Up half the night, nearly 'til dawn, I can almost see the light in a love that can't go wrong, It's just another sweetish love song.
- 2013, Paul. D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, Soup For The Qan:
- Pine Nuts are sweetish in flavor, warming, and lack poison.
Translations
somewhat sweet
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