grownish

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English

Etymology

From grown +‎ -ish.

Adjective

grownish (comparative more grownish, superlative most grownish)

  1. Somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish
    • 2000, Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones are Not My Child, page 563:
      She brushed past the dry blooms while she took his measure. So grown, thirteen and grownish, casually out for a stroll at three a.m.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Rotting Strawberries, CatuKe Monique, page 143:
      Correcting her grownish little one's sentence structure, “We 'have' been over this, or we've been over this. I didn't raise you to speak like trash, or smoke like trash. Let me smell your breath.”

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