Meanings
adjectivekeenish (not comparable)
- not comparableSomewhat keen.
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All the street-sellers in question are what street estimation pronounces to be educated men; they can all, as far as I could ascertain, read and write, and some of them were “keenish politicians, both free-traders, and against free-trade when they was a-talking of the better days when they was young.”
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861
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keenish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keenish
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“keenish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keenish. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “keenish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keenish.
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