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brackish
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adj 1: distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin
brackish gruel"
2: slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of
seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny
deep" [syn: brackish, briny]
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brutish
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adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a
dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
[syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish,
brutal]
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caddish
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adj 1: offensively discourteous [syn: caddish, unchivalrous,
ungallant]
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coltish
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adj 1: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students
celebrated their graduation with parties and practical
jokes" [syn: coltish, frolicsome, frolicky,
rollicking, sportive]
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coquettish
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adj 1: like a coquette [syn: coquettish, flirtatious]
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doltish
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adj 1: heavy and dull and stupid [syn: cloddish, doltish]
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fattish
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adj 1: somewhat fat
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fetish
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n 1: a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to
an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or
part of the body; "common male fetishes are breasts, legs,
hair, shoes, and underwear"
2: a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
[syn: juju, voodoo, hoodoo, fetish, fetich]
3: excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; "made a
fetish of cleanliness" [syn: fetish, fetich]
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latish
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adj 1: somewhat late
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loutish
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adj 1: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
"aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn:
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal,
oafish, swinish]
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pettish
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adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
[syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome,
peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy,
testy, tetchy, techy]
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skittish
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adj 1: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn:
skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous]
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sluttish
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adj 1: characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used
especially of women [syn: blowsy, blowzy,
slatternly, sluttish]
2: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy
virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women";
"wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, loose,
promiscuous, sluttish, wanton]
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sweetish
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adj 1: somewhat sweet
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whitish
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adj 1: resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass" [syn:
milky, milklike, whitish]
2: of something having a color tending toward white [syn:
whitish, off-white]
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brattish
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adj 1: (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly [syn:
bratty, brattish]
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british
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or
its people or culture; "his wife is British"
n 1: the people of Great Britain [syn: British, British
people, Brits]
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scottish
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its
people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic
language; "Scots Gaelic"; "the Scots community in New
York"; "`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in
`The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or
`Scottish mountains'"; "`Scotch' is in disfavor with
Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland
except in such frozen phrases as `Scotch broth' or
`Scotch whiskey' or `Scotch plaid'" [syn: Scots,
Scottish, Scotch]
n 1: the dialect of English used in Scotland [syn: Scottish,
Scots, Scots English]
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sottish
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adj 1: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a
bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy
drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken
binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up";
"sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken,
sottish]
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cattish
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adj 1: marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark" [syn:
bitchy, catty, cattish]
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rightish
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adj 1: tending toward the political right
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shortish
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adj 1: somewhat short
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lettish
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n 1: the official language of Latvia; belongs to the Baltic
branch of Indo-European [syn: Latvian, Lettish]
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goatish
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rattish
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lightish
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smartish
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novelettish
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stoutish
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