Definitions for shortish

shortish short·ish

Spelling: [shawr-tish]
IPA: /ˈʃɔr tɪʃ/

Shortish is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in shortish (hhiorsst).

Definitions for shortish

adjective

  1. rather short.

Origin of shortish

First recorded in 1790-1800; short + -ish1

Examples for shortish

Dick saw before him a shortish, thickset man, grim of feature, who did not ask him a word until he had finished the dispatch.

Tumpany was a shortish thick-set man of fifty, with a red clean-shaven face.

They are shortish and very black, with projecting jaws, broad noses and thick lips.

The ninth is a shortish hole, for which one is popularly supposed to take an iron club.

He was a shortish, rather thick-set, fair man, with a roundish face and a somewhat florid complexion.

A shortish, tubby man whose figure added ten years to his age.

Harpyia has shortish ears and extraordinarily prolonged and tubular nostrils.

He was a shortish, thick-set man of some five and forty years of age.

Its form, however, must have been Pig-like, so at least one would presume from the elongated skull and shortish legs.

You seem to have but a shortish pack, I think—ten, twelve, fourteen couple—'ow's that?

Word Value for shortish
Scrable

14

Words with friends

12

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