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English
Etymology
From Middle English wannysche, wannyssh; equivalent to wan + -ish.
Adjective
wannish (comparative more wannish, superlative most wannish)
- (obsolete) Quite wan or pale.
1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 6:Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire / Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: [...]
1890, Hezekiah Butterworth, The Log School-House on the Columbia:The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.
1894, Leigh Gordon Giltner, The Path of Dreams:Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray.