sweetish

English

Etymology

From sweet +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswiːtɪʃ/
• Homophone: Swedish (flapping)

Adjective

sweetish (comparative more sweetish, superlative most sweetish)

1. somewhat sweet (all senses)
   • 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, page 46:

     At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.

   • 2009, Jeffrey Poppy, Jeff, the Roofer, Reflections of a Double Negative Life:

     Up half the night, nearly 'til dawn, I can almost see the light in a love that can't go wrong, It's just another sweetish love song.

   • 2013, Paul. D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, Soup For The Qan:

     Pine Nuts are sweetish in flavor, warming, and lack poison.

Translations

somewhat sweet

• Armenian: քաղցրավուն (hy) (kʻaġcʻravun)
• Azerbaijani: şirinsov, şirintəhər, şirinhal
• Belarusian: саладкава́ты (saladkaváty)
• Bulgarian: сладникав (sladnikav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 有點甜的／有点甜的 (zh) (yǒudiǎntiánde)

• Finnish: makeahko
• French: douçâtre (fr), douceâtre (fr)
• German: süßlich (de)
• Hungarian: édeskés (hu)
• Latin: dulciculus
• Polish: słodkawy (pl)
• Romanian: dulcișor (ro), dulciu, dulceag (ro)
• Russian: сладкова́тый (ru) (sladkovátyj)
• Swedish: sötaktig (sv)
• Ukrainian: солодкува́тий (solodkuvátyj)