a. [f. FRESH a. + -ISH.] Somewhat fresh; in senses of FRESH a.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, I. xxxi. 170. If the Mould should look a little freshish, it won’t be so much suspected.
1798. Lady Hunter, in Sir M. Hunter’s Jrnl. (1894), 123. All the gales … are … a little fresh, or freshish.
1824. Examiner, 555/2. He was freshish; betwixt and between; just neither drunk nor sober.
1862. T. A. Trollope, Marietta, I. i. 6. ‘It is freshish,’ replied his son, pulling up the fur collar of his coat around his ears.
1865. Examiner, 18 March, 163/2. Sims, a waterman, says there was a freshish wind, but no surf.
