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1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
(of adjectives from numbers, especially of times and ages)About, approximately.
We arrived at tennish. We arrived tennish. ― We arrived sometime around ten.
I couldn't tell his precise age, but he looked fiftyish.
(of adjectives from roots of proper nouns denoting names of nations or regions) Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).
This is a productive termination used as a regular formative of adjectives (which are sometimes also used as nouns).
(of adjectives from common nouns) Many of the words may have a more or less depreciative or contemptuous force.
(of adjectives from roots of proper nouns) This is the regular formative of patrial adjectives, with the suffix in some adjectives being contracted to -sh or (especially when t precedes) to -ch, as in Welsh (formerly also Welch), Scotch, Dutch, and French. Some used colloquially or made up on occasion may have a diminutive or derogatory implication.
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(non-productive)An ending found on some verbs; see usage notes.
Usage notes
This is a termination of some English verbs of French origin, which normally end in -ir in French, or formed on the type of such verbs, having no assignable force, but being merely a terminal relic, e.g. astonish, banish, establish, diminish, finish, punish, etc.