Etymology

baddish

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Today it means: Somewhat bad; of a quality between mediocre and bad. Full definition →

English bad ← Middle English badde
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The story

  1. Middle Englishbadde
  2. Englishbad
  3. English todaybaddish

From bad + -ish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.