Definitions
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- adjective Tough in a slight degree.
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- adjective Somewhat
tough .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The estimable Bob Dalrymple, one of the brightest and more promising youngish Tories faces a toughish task in Michael Forsyth's old seat but if there really is a Tory "wave" then his is the seat that will prove its existence.
Easy Populism 2009
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The estimable Bob Dalrymple, one of the brightest and more promising youngish Tories faces a toughish task in Michael Forsyth's old seat but if there really is a Tory "wave" then his is the seat that will prove its existence.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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"The estimable Bob Dalrymple, one of the brightest and more promising youngish Tories faces a toughish task in Michael Forsyth's old seat but if there really is a Tory" wave "then his is the seat that will prove its existence."
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The woman was pretty enough in a street-smart kind of way; dark hair, toughish face, compact body, muscular but skinny.
State of fear Crichton, Michael, 1942- 2004
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My left-hand neighbor is a somewhat slangy young gentleman in a suit of chequered clothes, who carves the meats, being at the head of the table; and my happy propinquity secures me the honor of selection by the young gentleman as the recipient of his observations: a toughish round of beef which he is called upon to carve evokes from him an aside to the effect that it is "rather a dose."
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And the resemblance was further increased by the fact that he was "a toughish lot", who was "little, but steel and india-rubber".
The Gold Bat 1928
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And the resemblance was further increased by the fact that he was "a toughish lot", who was "little, but steel and india-rubber".
The Gold Bat 1928
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And the resemblance was further increased by the fact that he was "a toughish lot", who was "little, but steel and india-rubber".
The Gold Bat 1928
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Eckman was a toughish young Swede, and he thought it would be something of a lark to take a pretty girl through the slaughter-houses.
The song of the lark 1915
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Eckman was a toughish young Swede, and he thought it would be something of a lark to take a pretty girl through the slaughter-houses.
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