copperish

English

Etymology

copper +‎ -ish

Adjective

copperish (comparative more copperish, superlative most copperish)

  1. Like copper; coppery.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, pp. 63,
      She was naked like himself, but chocolate-coloured, not copperish as he was.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for copperish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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