a. [f. WIDE a. + -ISH1.] Somewhat wide (lit. and fig.).
In first two quots. used advb.
c. 1780. Duch. Devonshire, in Daily News (1889), 27 Oct., 6/5. The P. of W. dresses his hair in a new way, flattish at top—frizzed out widish on each side, and three curls at the bottom of the frizzing.
1828. Trial of W. & J. Dyon, 20. The man walked widish and turned his toes out.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, II. 931. A widish interpretation of the laws of non-intervention.
1849. R. Curzon, Jr., Vis. Monast., 298. The … rock … is separated from the end of a projecting line of mountains by a widish chasm.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVI. x. (1872), VI. 251. Kind of Manuscript Newspaper … which seems to have had a widish circulation.
