A fairish income. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a fairish income. ,a fairish complexion. From Dictionary.com.
A dozen or so of men came in – fairish, with grey or hazel eyes – all friendly. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
After a bit, we mustered a varry nice pairty ov abaat a dozen, an 'as iverybody wor tawkin at once we managed to mak a fairish din. From Wordnik.com. [Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley] Reference
He was a fairish, sunburned man who had run to seed. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
I had of patience fairish store, but now no more have I. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Five foot eight or nine, nine stone, fairish hair, blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Leave the Grave Green] Reference
With Laura, deeds came an easy first and planning a fairish second. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
We've had our turn of fairish times and there ain't no cause to pick. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger in the Air] Reference
Green, and is rather a nice-looking girl, with dark wavy hair and a fairish skin. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The Tanu have worked out a fairish battery of tests to sort out the go and no go. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
"You've come a fairish step unshod," said Cadfael, on his knees to examine the damage. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrim of Hate]
It flolloped in a sympathetic sort of way, moving a fairish body of water as it did so. From Wordnik.com. [Life, the Universe, and Everything]
Powerfully built, with a boyish face and a wealth of fairish hair over one side of the noble brow. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917] Reference
A nondescript sort of young man, all skin and bone, fairish, potato-faced—but what did it matter?. From Wordnik.com. [Portobello] Reference
He had a ruddy, roundish face, with fairish hair, rather long, flattened to his forehead with sweat. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox] Reference
Early dawn saw us in motion, with lovely weather, a fairish road, and men in high health and spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
They fetched high prices, from fifty to eighty-five guineas, and they came to a fairish figure the lot. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
It seemed like a fairish point, but not when you consider the number of people in wheelchairs in London. From Wordnik.com. [Gridlock]
Manylodes, I know, takes brandy; their sherry is vile, and their claret worse; maybe they may have a fairish glass of port. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
An attractive young man with fairish hair and a roving blue eye came through the arch from the outer shop and looked about him. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Wall]
His hair, a fairish brown, curled softly close to his head and down the back of his neck, cut short and in the shape of a helmet. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
"Yes, pretty fairish to look at from the land," replied the other, giving but a half-assent to his brother's exclamation of admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
"Now I dessay it's a fairish long journey by rail?". From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Clogs] Reference
And yet it seems to me that I have a fairish sort of faith. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Instance] Reference
She answered, colouring, 'So long, that I can speak fairish German.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
By luck and good conduct he had managed to get the wee boat a fairish way out. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
It was a business as had been established some time -- a fairish business it was. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference
Beats me how them Frenchmen fetch anywheres, exceptin 'America's fairish broadly. From Wordnik.com. [Captains Courageous] Reference
"Well, I am a fairish good hand at drawing a cork," said Bertram, as he left the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
He was rarther bent in the middle with very nice long legs fairish hair and blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan] Reference
You pick one that's full-chested, that's got a fairish-sized nose, and that likes cats. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
"fairish, Jeremy, fairish!" answered Jessamy, in a sweet voice peculiarly rich and mellow. From Wordnik.com. [Peregrine's Progress] Reference
The old Basuto near by gave me a drink of fairish water, but water was far away, I was told. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference
He had a fairish baritone voice, and it was he that started us singing to fill up the endless time. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Thus: -- he is a nice young fellow, well bred, no cringing courtier, accomplished, good at classics, fairish at mathematics, a scholar in. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
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