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What does poorish mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word poorish? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Reasonably poor, quite poor.
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There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin' where they make out the people too good, for there be folk that do think a balm-bowl be like the sea, if only it be their own.
It was, in fact, a poorish match and the young couple were dependent more or less on Wardle.
But poorish health and frustration with the constant squabbling at the academy made him decide to call it a day.
Dartie reflected that Bosinney would have a poorish time in that cab if he didn't look sharp!
Macerinus, a diminutive, means leanish, poorish, out of case.
But that is the new task for Joel Klein, once Bill Clinton's antitrust boss. For most of the past century, the New York school system provided poorish children with an extraordinary education.

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