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Which is the meaning of the suffix -ish in words such as foolish and selfish?

to make


tending to


that does

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Answer: tending too

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Answer:

approximately,” as in bluish, tallish, sixish, or even hungry-ish. ... As a word by itself—which is to say, not as a suffix—ish means more or less the same thing: kind of, thereabouts, in a way..the first one

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