fortyish

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈfɔː(ɹ).ti.ɪʃ/

Definition of fortyish

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Close to the number forty
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adj

  1. Close to the number forty
  2. About forty years old.
    “I’m going to start a support group of us fortyish guys with this problem. LUMPS, we’ll call our group. Losing Unwanted Midriff Plumpitude Sensibly.”

num

  1. Any number close to forty.
    “One problem it drops in our laps is to have developed all fortyish of its species within our temperate area, from the Falklands to the central temperate Andes.”
    “A great many black men are Mark Lawrence's age (fortyish), height (six-two-ish), weight (one-seventy-ish), and complexion (a reddish medium brown) that hints of a childhood of freckles and umber-red hair”
    “In my day, more often than not, you had to break rank to join the very few fortyish-aged women (renegades) promoted”
    “The day was cloudy, and the temperature was about fortyish.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz Old English fēowertiġ Middle English fourti English forty Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English fortyish From forty + -ish.

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