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English
Etymology
From wisp + -ish.
Adjective
wispish (comparative more wispish, superlative most wispish)
- Wispy.
1888, Anna Bowman Dodd, chapter 4, in Glorinda, Boston: Roberts Bros, page 55:The clouds, still faintly tinged with the sunrise glow, rolled like masses of tinted feathers over the low hill-tops, and rising from the ground there was the misty, wispish breath which the young day seemed to exhale from its soft bosom.
1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:Same blue serge dress she had two years ago, the nap bleaching. Seen its best days. Wispish hair over her ears. And that dowdy toque: three old grapes to take the harm out of it. Shabby genteel. She used to be a tasty dresser.
1928, Robert Byron, “Gardenias and Sweetpeas”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf, →OCLC, page 184:His pinched face, with its wispish silver growths, bent pince-nez, cap crushed slightly on one side, and air of portentous, almost lunatic solemnity, lent itself to more than portraiture.