a. [f. QUAINT a. + -ISH1.] Somewhat quaint.

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1594.  Willobie, Avisa (1880), 53. Your quaintish quirkes can want no mate.

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1796.  Lamb, Lett. to Coleridge, in Final Mem., I. 25. The concluding simile is far-fetched—‘tempest-honoured’ is a quaintish phrase.

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1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., xi. 449. The laureate has alluded to the present effect … in some happy but quaintish lines.

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  So Quaintlike a.

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1844.  Blackw. Mag., LVI. 159. Good and quaintlike old gentle rhymes they are.

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