fortyish

形容词 adj. 数词 num.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Close to the number forty
  2. About forty years old.
    — I’m going to start a support group of us fortyish guys with this problem. LUMPS, we’ll call our group. Losing Unwanted Midriff Plumpitude Sensibly.
数词 num.
  1. Any number close to forty.
    — One problem it drops in our laps is to have developed all fortyish of its species within our temperate area, from the Falklands to the central temperate Andes.

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English forty
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English fortyish
From forty + -ish.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English forty
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English fortyish
From forty + -ish.
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