Meaning

Of moderate quality, size, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of moderate quality, size, etc.
2. In reasonable health and spirits, but not great.
3. Of reasonable fairness; even-handed or equitable, but probably not as good as one wants.
4. (of weather) Mostly mild and clement.
5. (of hair or skin) Somewhat fair or light-colored.
6. (dialect) A fairy.

Example Sentences

Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, […]

Then I went and fetched him; though I had the deuce of a bother making the coppers believe that he was my brother—you see he was in a fairish mess, but he did look like a gentleman, which is more than I do nowadays.

'It seems you'll find a fairish mess out in Austria,' said Basil.

At the same time, I have tried to stand back and describe objectively why and how, in the then Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurds words, it turned out to be a "fairish nightmare"—a nightmare for which most principals involved, including myself, bear some responsibility.

Lord bless you, I know all the breeders about here; they are not a bad set, and they breed a very fairish set of horses, but they are not like what their fathers were, nor are their horses like their fathers' horses.

"I did pretty fairish," replied Benjamin, modestly

Altogether we got a fairish lot of skins of one kind and another .

For those who aspire to do the highest and most difficult work, all this may be necessary; but for those who would like to experiment in the art, and who with to turn out fairish work and get results good enough for ordinary purposes, a much cheaper and simpler apparatus will answer.

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• fairishes
• fairish

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