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"etymology_text": "From bling + -ish.",
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"ref": "2006, Waitrose Food Illustrated",
"text": "Certainly, a busy restaurant is up to not much more than overpresentcd cocktail canapés and certainly doesn't satisfy anybody with a reasonable appetite. The place is usually overdecoratcd in a semi-traditional, blingish sort of way and has a [...]",
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"ref": "2009, David Cross, I Drink for a Reason",
"text": "Basically so that she could feel better about herself for this simple blingish act as opposed to feeling better about herself and inflating her worth through an act of charity.",
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"ref": "2009, Stuart Maconie, Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England",
"text": "They roam the streets, the older ones swathed in Nicole Farhi, Hobbs and Monsoon, the younger ones slightly brittle-looking and blingish in designer sunglasses that probably cost the price ofa second-hand car.",
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"ref": "2013, Amy Barendt, My Wife, My Life",
"text": "She likes blingish rings. So I got it for her, she didn't know that I got it for her. I was going to wait for the right time to give it to her.",
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"ref": "2014, Jim Whiting, The Story of No Limit Records",
"text": "P brought Louisiana hiphop to the radio and lined the racks of Sam Goodys everywhere with blindingly blingish Pen N Pixel covers, releasing well over 100 albums during a relatively short reign [...]",
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"(informal) Characteristic of bling; showy; ostentatious"
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"text": "Basically so that she could feel better about herself for this simple blingish act as opposed to feeling better about herself and inflating her worth through an act of charity.",
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"ref": "2009, Stuart Maconie, Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England",
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"ref": "2013, Amy Barendt, My Wife, My Life",
"text": "She likes blingish rings. So I got it for her, she didn't know that I got it for her. I was going to wait for the right time to give it to her.",
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"ref": "2014, Jim Whiting, The Story of No Limit Records",
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