dampish
/ˈdæmpɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Moderately damp or moist.
Example Sentences
- "All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...]."
- "c. 1600, author unknown, once attributed to William Shakespeare, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, London: J.M. Dent, 1897, Act I, Scene 3 https://archive.org/details/merrydevilofedmo00fabe We'll first hang Enfield in such rings of mist / As never rose from any dampish fen: / I'll make the brinèd sea to rise at Ware, / And drown the marshes unto Stratford Bridge;"
- "Miles of long, dark-brown, dampish-looking galleries stretch away to the right and left, and though devoid of the picturesque festoons of fungi which decorate the London Dock vaults, exhibit a sufficient degree of mouldiness to give them an air of respectable antiquity."
- "I remember very clearly the feeling of sitting there reading it; the dampish clay of the trench bottom underneath me, the constant shifting of my legs out of the way as men hurried stopping down the trench, the crack-crack-crack of bullets a foot or two overhead."
- "I was four but I turned four hundred maybe, Encountering the ancient dampish feel Of a clay floor. Maybe four thousand even."
- "Her hand was warm, lying there in his, dampish, fingers interlaced with his."
Etymology
Etymology tree English damp Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English dampish From damp + -ish.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more dampish (comparative)
most dampish (superlative)