smallish

smallish

English

Etymology

From Middle English smalish, equivalent to small +‎ -ish.

Adjective

smallish

  1. Somewhat small.
    • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
      I may say that I'm a married man, living with my wife at that address—a smallish flat which suits us very well as we have no children.
    • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
      Quite a few minutes would be spun out, for instance, at the smallish town of Chirk, but to me the dalliance was generally worthwhile, except in wet weather, because of the increasing beauty of the wooded hill scenery thereabouts.

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