suspish

comparative more suspish · superlative most suspish

1. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of suspicious.

   They've lived here a long time. Stranger-wise the folks are a bit suspish, but not of one of themselves.

   2000, Leo Bruce, Death at Hallows End

   Synonyms: sus

present singular third person suspishes · participle present suspishing · participle past suspished · past suspished

1. slangTo be suspicious of; to suspect.

   "Oh, boy, but you sure look some!" was drawn from one in frank approval. "Now that you're in his togs the guy's own mother wouldn't suspish you."

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London