dressish

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adjective

dressy; fond of wearing fashionable clothing

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivedressish (comparative more dressish, superlative most dressish)

comparative more dressish · superlative most dressish

  1. raredressy; fond of wearing fashionable clothing

    Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's ^([sic]) very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all.

    1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book, page 80
    1 more example

    This lass, Nelly Long, she was dressish and dapper, And, though our Dick was a good looked lad, She snubb'd him, scop'd him, for she was a snapper, And told him quite plumpish—she wan't to be had: […]

    1829, Melodist, and Mirthful Olio

Origin

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Chicago

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