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English
Etymology
From Middle English watryssh, equivalent to water + -ish.
Adjective
waterish (comparative more waterish, superlative most waterish)
- Watery.
1601, C Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “ Of Certaine Prodigious Trees, and Presages Observed by Them. By what Meanes Trees Grow of Their Owne Accord. That All Plants Grow Not Every Where: And what Trees They be that are Appropriate to Certaine Regions, and are Not Elsewhere to be Found.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. , 1st tome, London: Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 478:The Pepper-trees live in Italie; the ſhrub of Caſia or the Canell likewiſe in the Northerly regions; the Frankincenſe tree alſo hath been knowne to live in Lydia: but where were the hote gleames of the Sunne to be found in thoſe regions, either to drie up the wateriſh humor of the one, or to concot and thicken the gumme and roſin of the other?
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