[f. FEEBLE a. + -ISH.] Somewhat feeble.

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1674.  R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 68. They that are weakly, tender, and feeblish.

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1832.  J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ, in Blackw. Mag., XXXII., Nov., 865. Performers with feeblish faces that must frown.

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1857.  Hughes, Tom Brown, II. v. But down below he is not so good by any means; no spring from the loins, and feebleish, not to say shipwrecky, about the knees.

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1882.  Carlyle, Reminiscences of My Irish Journey, in Century Mag., XXIV. 23/1. Rather a feeblish kind of County Town.

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