a. [f. YOUNG a. + -ISH1.] Somewhat young.

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1667.  Pepys, Diary, 10 April. It is strange … that Mr. Weaver,… who was … a youngish man, should be dead.

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1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 282, ¶ 2. Our Father is a youngish Man.

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1860.  O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., vii. (1891), 102. Judge Thornton,… as good at sixty as he was at forty, with a youngish second wife.

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1903.  Times, 18 March, 10/5. These senile parts generally appeal to young or youngish actors.

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