Definitions for palish

palish pal·ish

Spelling: [pey-lish]
IPA: /ˈpeɪ lɪʃ/

Palish is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in palish (ahilps).

Definitions for palish

adjective

  1. somewhat pale.

Origin of palish

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at pale1, -ish1

Examples for palish

The skin is yellow, the fruit of a palish red, and rather mealy.

It was a palish gray in color—which surprised Dane a little.

He was parchment-like and palish from sitting night after night and night after night over a sounder.

I noticed he was palish, and seemed all of a shake, but he did not answer when I called out to him.'

Its colour is palish brown, which harmonizes with the brown-coloured water of the estuary of the Rio de la Plata.

They are of a palish yellow, or quite colourless, and enclose sometimes a single, sometimes many calcareous corpuscles.

Herb Paris bears flowers of a palish greena colour always suggestive of lurking poison.

There was a Miss Wright, a meek little girl, palish, on whom her father doted.

The blood of life is in your veins; you haven't got the sickly, palish look that the girls have who stay indoors half the time.

Werner turned to a palish lean Bohemian who stood a little apart.

Word Value for palish
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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