fairish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In reasonable health and spirits, but not great.
adj
Of reasonable fairness; even-handed or equitable, but probably not as good as one wants.
adj
noun
A fairy.
Example Sentences
- "Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, […]"
- "Then I went and fetched him; though I had the deuce of a bother making the coppers believe that he was my brother—you see he was in a fairish mess, but he did look like a gentleman, which is more than I do nowadays."
- "'It seems you'll find a fairish mess out in Austria,' said Basil."
- "At the same time, I have tried to stand back and describe objectively why and how, in the then Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurds words, it turned out to be a "fairish nightmare"—a nightmare for which most principals involved, including myself, bear some responsibility."
- "Lord bless you, I know all the breeders about here; they are not a bad set, and they breed a very fairish set of horses, but they are not like what their fathers were, nor are their horses like their fathers' horses."
- ""I did pretty fairish," replied Benjamin, modestly"