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Re: Nextish

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by: henh...@gmail.com - Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:45 UTC

On Monday, September 14, 2020 at 12:53:02 AM UTC-7, Opinicus wrote:
> Hear in the wild from a 30-something native US English speaker:
>
> "I'll do it nextish."
>
> Online dictionaries seem to agree that "nextish" is dated
> publishing-industry slang for "next issue" but this speaker was
> clearly indicating that she was going to do something just as soon as
> she could get around to it: not "next" but "nextish". She didn't seem
> to be speaking sarcastically or whimsically.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this usage? I'm thinking it might be a
> spontaneous creation.
>
> --
> Bob
>
> --
> Bob
> St Francis would have done better to preach to the cats

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nextish

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ish

We arrived at tennish; We arrived tennish. (Sometime around ten.)

I couldn't tell his precise age, but he looked fiftyish.