a. [f. as prec. + -ISH.] Somewhat coarse.
1750. [R. Pultock], Life P. Wilkins (1883), li. 155/2. A great supply of coarsish linen.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., VI. 347. A neat coarsish-made girl.
1857. Wood, Com. Obj. Seashore, 43. Thick tufts of a coarsish horse-hair-like plant.
