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- adjective Somewhat
heavy .
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Examples
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I took it: a book of some kind, a small octavo book, only about six by nine inches, but heavyish.
The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010
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I say this with a heavyish heart and an awareness of contradiction: I'm always complaining that so many studio productions target undiscriminating kids to the exclusion of intelligent adult audiences.
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I get a 200g sub, so this is 100g spun up to give singles that I trust will ply to a heavyish sock weight yarn.
Update. Spinningfishwife 2009
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I get a 200g sub, so this is 100g spun up to give singles that I trust will ply to a heavyish sock weight yarn.
Archive 2009-03-01 Spinningfishwife 2009
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Hence heavyish posting, fuelled by endless cups of tea.
Archive 2005-03-20 Laban 2005
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Hence heavyish posting, fuelled by endless cups of tea.
Blogging From Bed ... Laban 2005
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Just a quick note to say that you looked heavyish last time I saw you, which, come to think of it, was this morning, in the Oval Office, when you accepted my withdrawal (which you had secretly demanded) and ruined my life and dreams and spirit.
11/14/2005 2005
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The lady pouring coffee and smoking cigarettes opposite me was smallish, heavyish, grayish, and angryish.
Foto Finish Argo, John 2002
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Oliver Crowe is nearly six feet, vividly dark, a little stooping, dressed like anybody else in the Yale Club from hair parted in the middle to low heavyish brown shoes, though the punctured patterns on the latter are a year or so out of date.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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A pair of large tortoise-shell spectacles straddled a big beak-like nose, and he wore a heavyish blond moustache with its points trained upwards and outwards rather after the fashion made famous in the
The Yellow Streak Valentine Williams 1914
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