wearish
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/
wearish
- (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
- (obsolete or dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:
- Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
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