"backish" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "back",
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      },
      "expansion": "back + -ish",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From back + -ish.",
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "backish (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 28, Barbara Ellen, “The week in TV: House of the Dragon; The Accused: National Treasures on Trial; Welcome to Wrexham and more”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "After the offer is graciously accepted (their arms are bitten off!), the unlikely Hollywood owners wisely take a back-ish seat to the darkly witty Wrexham folk, who love their team almost as much as they love slagging them off: “He puts in the shift, doesn’t he?” “So do the postmen. You wouldn’t play them on the wing.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somewhat at the back."
      ],
      "id": "en-backish-en-adj-9GSWQ~Su",
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Somewhat at the back."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
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            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "_dis": "27 73",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "_dis": "5 95",
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Andrew L. Sihler, Language History: An introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 196–197:",
          "text": "The value of the Latin letter O was for a virtual certainty a mid, back, rounded vowel. If therefore this letter is used to render a vowel in a previously unwritten (ancient) language, […] it is to be inferred that the phoneme in question was probably some kind of middish, backish, rounded vowel, or more accurately, included such phones prominently in its allophonic range.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somewhat or approximately back."
      ],
      "id": "en-backish-en-adj-DU3fK8tr",
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          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "vowel",
          "vowel"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics, of a vowel) Somewhat or approximately back."
      ],
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        "of a vowel"
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
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  "word": "backish"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ish",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "back",
        "3": "-ish"
      },
      "expansion": "back + -ish",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From back + -ish.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "backish (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 28, Barbara Ellen, “The week in TV: House of the Dragon; The Accused: National Treasures on Trial; Welcome to Wrexham and more”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "After the offer is graciously accepted (their arms are bitten off!), the unlikely Hollywood owners wisely take a back-ish seat to the darkly witty Wrexham folk, who love their team almost as much as they love slagging them off: “He puts in the shift, doesn’t he?” “So do the postmen. You wouldn’t play them on the wing.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somewhat at the back."
      ],
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        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Somewhat at the back."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Andrew L. Sihler, Language History: An introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 196–197:",
          "text": "The value of the Latin letter O was for a virtual certainty a mid, back, rounded vowel. If therefore this letter is used to render a vowel in a previously unwritten (ancient) language, […] it is to be inferred that the phoneme in question was probably some kind of middish, backish, rounded vowel, or more accurately, included such phones prominently in its allophonic range.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Somewhat or approximately back."
      ],
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          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "vowel",
          "vowel"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics, of a vowel) Somewhat or approximately back."
      ],
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        "of a vowel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "backish"
}