tonish
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/ˈtɒnɪʃ/
(UK)
Definition of tonish
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(archaic)Conforming to the "ton"; modish, stylish.
“[H]is nephew, Rose, whose trite, settled, tonish emptiness of Discourse is a never failing source of Laughter and diversion.”
“She saw that his conversation, and his shoe-buckles, his manners, and his toupee, were all perfectly tonish; gems of the first water, in the regalia of fashion; and thought that, upon the whole, he was a husband that would do her credit.”
“I was engaged to dine in St Albans Street to meet my favourite Miss Cecilia Forrest, Mr and Mrs Broadhead, the Duke of Hamilton, Sir Watts Horton, and other tonish friends of my eldest sister's.”
“[…] those who […] have an inclination to give their sons, their daughters, and their servants, a tonish finish to their educations, may sin in haste and repent at leisure by passing a season at Bath.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From ton + -ish.
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