a. [f. SOFT a. + -ISH.] Somewhat soft; rather tender.

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  Also Sc. and north. dial., somewhat wet or rainy.

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1589.  Fleming, Virg. Georg., V. 14. To wind … the limber speares about with softish leaues.

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1656.  W. Du Gard, trans. Comenius’ Gate Lat. Unl., 29. A round lump, softish, beneath chamfered.

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, III. I. ii. 268. ’Tis softish, and somewhat brown.

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1766.  J. Bartram, Jrnl., 4 Feb., 60. A softish rock full of sea-shells.

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1845.  Encycl. Metrop., XXV. 309/1. A little hair softish and curling.

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1878.  Huxley, Physiogr., xvi. 270–1. A bed of softish limestone.

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  transf.  1736.  Ainsworth, I. Softish (silly), ineptus, stupidus.

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