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English
Etymology
From jail + -ish.
Adjective
jailish (comparative more jailish, superlative most jailish)
- Resembling or characteristic of prison.
- March 9 1788, Anna Seward, a letter
[…] the jailish gloom of Venetian blinds […]
- 751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
[…] a certain want of decorum, a squalor of sentiment, a sort of jailish cast, contracted in the course of confinement, which disgusted the delicacy of our hero's observation.