"nephewish" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "nephew + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nephew + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nephewish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nephewish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "nephewish (comparative more nephewish, superlative most nephewish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895 May 7, “The Vanishing Spinster Aunt”, in Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Mass.: The Boston Transcript Company, page 4",
          "text": "In the good old days no family was complete without a spinster aunt to turn to in seasons of distress and grief, measles, whooping-cough, visiting, absence of parents, or unexpected company. More than any other woman, possibly, the spinster aunt has become New.[…]As a type of auntliness she is no longer plentiful, ubiquitous and tenderly considerate of a niecely sneeze or a nephewish whimper, of a brother-in-law’s slippers or a sister-in-law’s gruel or tea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Eugene Walter, The Untidy Pilgrim, page 140",
          "text": "“[…]You’re sure the hell not my nephew, and—” she waggled her finger at me “—if I ever catch a nephewish look in your eye or a nephewish tone in your voice, you can start ducking your head, ’cause the nearest brick has already started toward you.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea, Macdonald, page 347",
          "text": "‘Now you’re being nephewish. I think I prefer you as a quiffy gallant.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Characteristic of a nephew."
      ],
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          "nephew",
          "nephew"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nephewly"
        }
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    }
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  "word": "nephewish"
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      "args": {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nephew + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nephewish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nephewish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "nephewish (comparative more nephewish, superlative most nephewish)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895 May 7, “The Vanishing Spinster Aunt”, in Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Mass.: The Boston Transcript Company, page 4",
          "text": "In the good old days no family was complete without a spinster aunt to turn to in seasons of distress and grief, measles, whooping-cough, visiting, absence of parents, or unexpected company. More than any other woman, possibly, the spinster aunt has become New.[…]As a type of auntliness she is no longer plentiful, ubiquitous and tenderly considerate of a niecely sneeze or a nephewish whimper, of a brother-in-law’s slippers or a sister-in-law’s gruel or tea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Eugene Walter, The Untidy Pilgrim, page 140",
          "text": "“[…]You’re sure the hell not my nephew, and—” she waggled her finger at me “—if I ever catch a nephewish look in your eye or a nephewish tone in your voice, you can start ducking your head, ’cause the nearest brick has already started toward you.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea, Macdonald, page 347",
          "text": "‘Now you’re being nephewish. I think I prefer you as a quiffy gallant.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Characteristic of a nephew."
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "nephewish"
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