dankish

dankish

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English dank
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English dankish

    From dank + -ish.

    Adjective

    dankish (comparative more dankish, superlative most dankish)

    1. Somewhat dank.
      • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
        The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.

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