Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Somewhat raw; rather raw, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Somewhat raw.

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  • adjective Somewhat raw.

Etymologies

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raw +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Also the lower slower bake time would help as a PP mentioned I had to dark edges and a rawish inside.

    big crumb coffee cake | smitten kitchen 2008

  • The black/white thingy is a pillow in a very nice, rawish silk.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

  • As for the shape, it helps the sauce adhere to the gnocchi and helps prevent a rawish center.

    gnocchi with a grater | smitten kitchen 2007

  • Apple tarte Tatin, with apple pieces tossed into rawish dough, was no fruity substitute.

    NYT > Home Page By M. H. REED 2010

  • That’s why I object to some commentators who use CRN 1-5 rawish, as it is now, as some sort of validation of the final version of NASA GISS worldwide, after adjustments.

    A Second Look at USHCN Classification « Climate Audit 2007

  • Josephus; but as his heart warmed with the liquor and the good fire, for it was a cold rawish night, -- he returned to Taffy with the pigtail's master; and insisted, that as we had heard about his foreign sweetheart's death, which he appeared to have taken so much to heart, we should just bear with him once more, as he read over what he called her dirgie, which was written on a half-sheet of grey mouldy paper -- as if handed down from the days of the Covenanters.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • Josephus; but as his heart warmed with the liquor and the good fire, for it was a cold rawish night, -- he returned to Taffy with the pigtail's master; and insisted, that as we had heard about his foreign sweetheart's death, which he appeared to have taken so much to heart, we should just bear with him once more, as he read over what he called her dirgie, which was written on a half-sheet of grey mouldy paper -- as if handed down from the days of the Covenanters.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

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