Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rather loose; tending toward looseness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat loose.
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- adjective Somewhat
loose .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Garraway Pim_, a doddering old gentleman, with a thin falsetto voice and a loosish memory, but otherwise harmless.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 Various 1898
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Chance threw in his way a young Yorkshireman, who frequently appearing in subsequent pages, we may introduce as a loosish sort of hand, up to anything in the way of a lark, but rather deficient in cash -- a character so common in London, as to render further description needless.
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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a black, loosish gown, and wearing a curiously crown-shaped cap, also black.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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