Adjective : a bitter sorrow. ,a bitter chill. ,bitter hatred. ,a bitter lesson. ,bitter words.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : Learn to take the bitter with the sweet.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : herbs employed to bitter vermouth.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adverb : a bitter cold night.    From Dictionary.com. 

The leaves have a somewhat fragrant smell, and a bitterish taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

It has no odour, but gives a bitterish taste which lasts in the mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Its taste is warm, bitterish, and rather pungent; its smell, aromatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference

The breeze ruffled my hair and brought the bitterish scent of unripe chyst to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

The skin of the kernel must first be removed, or it will impart a bitterish and nutty taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference

There was a bitterish, vegetal component to the green puree and a sweetness to the cherry sauce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sumile's cherry blossom menu: 701 issagoodbrillian stars] Reference

The nuts have a light pleasant smell, and an unctuous, bitterish, roughish (not ungrateful) taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The root, when fresh, has a hot pungent bitterish taste, and may be usefully chewed for tooth-ache, or to obviate paralysis of the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

In one or two of them the water is drinkable, but in the greater part, it is of a bitterish and very disagreeable taste, though in great plenty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

The taproot of the cultivated plant is roasted in France, and mixed with coffee, to which, when infused, it gives a bitterish taste and a dark colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The seeds have a bitterish warm taste and an aromatic flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

This ru from it when broken, and is bitterish, but not dt agreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ...] Reference

But the Black-Berries are bitterish, and not so palatable, as in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.] Reference

Arugula: Also called is a bitterish, aromatic salad green with a peppery mustard flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference

There are abundance of wild grapes in the woods, but having a woody and bitterish taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference

(The Figwort Tribe.) Generally acrid and bitterish, sometimes dangerous in their properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

But Mary Anne, in spite of her long draughts of these bitterish, pungent, aromatic teas, grew no better.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wandering Samaritan] Reference

They are of a bitterish sweet Relish, and are equally valuable with our small Black-Cherries, for an Infusion in Spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.] Reference

Arugula: Also called rocket, roquette, rugula and rucola, arugula is a bitterish, aromatic salad green with a peppery mustard flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference

The root is the part employed medicinally, and when dry has an aromatic smell, and a bitterish aromatic taste, and not very unpleasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

All the ground is very clean, having 18 fathoms at the mouth and 13 within; and half a league inland there is a well of water, though not very plentiful, and bitterish.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference

2. Reduce the amount of fenugreek seeds if you do not care for the bitterish taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

Do try it if you like that bitterish flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methi Seeds & Rice Dosa] Reference

402: bitterish taste in the back part of the tongue and in the throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference

The secretion in this place contains a reddish pigment of a bitterish sweet taste, the composition of which has not been investigated. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference

Leaves bitterish, very nauseous.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Milk mild, then bitterish and plentiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

And leaves a bitterish savor in the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Hot, bitterish stuff -- nothing: not like green.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

The taste is somewhat nutty, sometimes bitterish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

And if you’re feeling cross and bitterish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy faic! =) - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference