a. [f. WINTER sb.1 + -ISH1.] † a. Belonging to winter. b. Having a quality of winter; (somewhat) winterly or wintry.
1530. Palsgr., 329/2. Wynterysshe, yvernal.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 220. In winter it may … be called, a winterish region so wet … it is.
1885. Sarah O. Jewett, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 199/1. Gray and winterish as it [sc. a barberry bush] had been on her approach, when she looked at it from the other side it seemed to be glowing with rubies.
