Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat bitter; moderately bitter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat bitter.
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- adjective Reasonably
bitter .
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- adjective somewhat bitter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet the lovely bitterish smell that fills your kitchen takes the edge off the exertion.
Holy-Moly Lobster Mole J.J. Goode 2011
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Yet the lovely bitterish smell that fills your kitchen takes the edge off the exertion.
Holy-Moly Lobster Mole J.J. Goode 2011
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Tasting litteh for the first time, he immediately recognized the marjoram, cilantro, and golpar—a bitterish Persian spice—that define the Iranian condiment.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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The key ingredient in this daal is 1 1/2 tsp freshly powdered methi seeds which impart a unique bitterish taste.
Daal Palak - 2 Meera 2008
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The key ingredient in this daal is 1 1/2 tsp freshly powdered methi seeds which impart a unique bitterish taste.
Archive 2008-08-01 Meera 2008
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Well, what can I say except that there is simply no way to chase cookies with bits of tangy toffee and bitterish walnuts in a cookie that is pure brownie awesomeness in the middle, replete with the shiny crackled lid…
chickpea salad with roasted red peppers | smitten kitchen 2008
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There was a bitterish, vegetal component to the green puree and a sweetness to the cherry sauce.
Sumile's cherry blossom menu: 701 issagoodbrillian stars 2006
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There was a bitterish, vegetal component to the green puree and a sweetness to the cherry sauce.
Augieland: 2006
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Rock salt is found also in every part of the eastern mountain from Kenne southward, and the peasants of Egypt and Nubia collect it; but it has a very disagreeable bitterish-sweet taste.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Kordofan, whither it is imported from Darfour; and salt, from the salt mines of Boyedha; but this salt is dear, and the poor use as a substitute for it a brine, which they procure by dissolving in hot water lumps of a reddish coloured saline earth, of a bitterish, disagreeable taste, which they purchase from the Bedouins of the eastern desert; it seems to contain ochre and allum.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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