ish
adverb
[ ɪʃ ]
• to some extent.
• "‘Are you busy?’ ‘Ish’"
Origin:
1980s: from -ish1.
ish
noun
• an issue of magazine, journal, etc.
• "the super duo appears in the latest ish"
Origin:
1940s: informal abbreviation of issue.
ish
noun
• used as a euphemism for ‘shit’.
• "that ish was hard for me to watch"
Origin:
1990s: alteration of shit.
-ish
suffix
• (forming adjectives from nouns) having the qualities or characteristics of.
• "apish"
• (forming adjectives from adjectives) somewhat.
• "yellowish"
Origin:
Old English -isc, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse -iskr, German and Dutch -isch, also to Greek -iskos (suffix forming diminutive nouns).
-ish
suffix
• forming verbs such as abolish, establish.
Origin:
from French -iss- (from stems of verbs ending in -ir ), from Latin -isc- (suffix forming inceptive verbs); compare with -ish1.
