a. [f. COLD a. + -ISH.] Rather cold; somewhat cold.
1589. Fleming, Georg. Virg., II. 34. Caues, liuely … lakes and coldish Tempe shades.
1675. Cotton, Poet. Wks. (1765), 282. It being pretty coldish Weather.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, I. 226. It was a dark misty Night, and coldish.
1796. E. Darwin, Zoon., II. 568. Going into a coldish bath.
1878. Lady Herbert, trans. Hübner’s Ramble, I. xi. 175. Coldish tones bordering on yellow.
Hence Coldishly adv.
1611. Cotgr., Froidelettement, chilly, coldishly.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I., Coldishly, Tepidé.
