Definitions

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  • adjective Somewhat hot.

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  • adjective somewhat hot, not quite hot

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  • adjective somewhat hot

Etymologies

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From hot +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • They had tried to get a reality show about the Tiger Woods hoopla but all four American networks said that they preferred to steer clear of that somewhat 'hottish' subject

    TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page 2010

  • Earlier in the week, Harvey cleverly addressed England's on and off love affair with Andy Murray in the poem "one of ours": if ever he's brattish or brutish or skittish he's Scottish but if he looks fittish and his form is hottish he's British

    John Lundberg: The Official and Unofficial (and Brilliant and Insane) Poetry of Wimbledon 2010

  • Try putting hottish - not too hot - cloths on your breasts when you express.

    Lessons at Lunch kittenpie 2008

  • * Lots of cynics have floated "regressing to the mean" jokes about the Nats 'hottish start.

    Nats ratings on MASN soaring 2010

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brutish, but also kind of hottish.

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009 2009

  • Eli then grabbed the glass plate with his hands One of the skills you pick up after forty years in the lab is a certain ability to touch hottish things.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • Eli then grabbed the glass plate with his hands One of the skills you pick up after forty years in the lab is a certain ability to touch hottish things.

    Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brutish, but also kind of hottish.

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2009 2009

  • Lukewarm or hottish water would produce the desired insipid cup even with a good spoonful of tea.

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • Variations on a theme that come together with that touch of raw thyme that harkens back to the days he was working with Colicchio at the Tavern, and mustard greens and parmesan adding hottish astringency and sourness, middling the dish right at the level food in a restaurant called Hearth should be.

    Augieland: 2006

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