a. [f. FAST a. + -ISH.] Somewhat fast.
1854. S. Phillips, Ess. fr. Times, Ser. II. 330. A short, stout, empty, good-natured, and over-dressed—in other words a ‘fastish’ young man.
1873. Miss Braddon, Str. & Pilgr., II. ii. 80–1. The class with which Mr. Cinqmars shared the glories of his wealth and state was that class which seems by some natural affinity to ally itself with the wealthy parvenu—second-rate authors, newspaper men, and painters, fastish noblemen, military men with a passion for amateur theatricals, and so on; toute la boutique, as Mrs. Cinqmars observed.
1884. Lillywhite’s Cricket Ann., 115. A useful bowler, fastish as a rule.
