Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inclined to be distant and reserved; aloof.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined to keep aloof; distant in manner; reserved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Colloq. U.S. Shy or distant in manner; aloof; stand-offish.
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- adjective
aloof
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking cordiality; unfriendly
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Examples
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She chooses roles which are a little stand-offish, which is not what you would want for a role like Cat, but for Cersei it is perfect.
TERMINATOR meets GAME OF THRONES Adam Whitehead 2009
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We do not drive to the "offish" unless we are very, very drunk, in which case we might be arrested by the ... poleesh?
Gene thinks you talk funny Post 2010
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Yesterday rather "offish" whole day; felt just as though "it wouldn't come."
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There was a whole history in those snow tracks, mine alone and kind of offish, and the others cuddling together.
Where there's a Will 1912
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While there they said they could not replicate the problem and were kind of offish about it.
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Ernest Hemingway, who claimed to have discovered thirty-six new varieties offish, kept Dos Passos abreast of his attempts to harpoon a humpback whale.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Dirtiest Race Ever Reaches Its Peak Greg Mitchell 2010
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Ernest Hemingway, who claimed to have discovered thirty-six new varieties offish, kept Dos Passos abreast of his attempts to harpoon a humpback whale.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Dirtiest Race Ever Reaches Its Peak Greg Mitchell 2010
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Ernest Hemingway, who claimed to have discovered thirty-six new varieties offish, kept Dos Passos abreast of his attempts to harpoon a humpback whale.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Dirtiest Race Ever Reaches Its Peak Greg Mitchell 2010
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In the act of relief, the prime minister called out: “Feeling stand-offish today, Winston?”
Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure 2010
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Ernest Hemingway, who claimed to have discovered thirty-six new varieties offish, kept Dos Passos abreast of his attempts to harpoon a humpback whale.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches from Incredible 1934 Campaign: Dirtiest Race Ever Reaches Its Peak Greg Mitchell 2010
alexz commented on the word offish
Spotted as slang for official
October 21, 2016