When can you use ish?

When can you use ish?

The suffix -ish is flexibly used with a base word to denote “somewhat, somewhat prone to, or somewhat like.” For example, we have ticklish, reddish-blue, stylish, childish, boyish, a waspish tongue, a foolish old woman, a coldish wind. Then we have Spanish, Irish, Scottish, Finnish, Danish, etc.

Is ish grammatically correct?

The canonical use of -ish is as a suffix meaning “approximately,” as in bluish, tallish, sixish, or even hungry-ish. As a word by itself—which is to say, not as a suffix—ish means more or less the same thing: kind of, thereabouts, in a way. …

Can you add ish to any word?

As with all standard suffixes, -ish should be added to the word and made a solid word when possible.

How do you write ish?

We can add the suffixes -ish and -y to words in informal contexts to make the reference sound deliberately vague and approximate. We commonly use the suffix -ish when we refer to numbers, times and quantities: Ok, I’ll come and collect you from your house at sevenish.

Is ish a Scrabble word?

No, ish is not in the scrabble dictionary.

Do Americans use ish?

‘Ish,’ he said, employing the international shorthand for slight hedge. But today I was reading Mr. Verb’s post on degrammaticali{s/z}ation (i.e. affixes become independent words) and found that his (an American’s) primary example was ish, indicating that it must have more currency in the US now.

Is five ish a word?

(colloquial) Any time close to five o’clock.

What does ish mean?

ISH

Is Osh a scrabble word?

Yes, ohs is in the scrabble dictionary.

Is Bish a scrabble word?

Bish is valid Scrabble Word.

What are some ish words?

accomplish

• accomplish.
• relinquish.
• extinguish.
• outlandish.
• amateurish.
• impoverish.
• silverfish.
• cuttlefish.