"evenish" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more evenish [comparative], most evenish [superlative]
Etymology: From even + -ish. Compare Saterland Frisian ieuwenske (“next to, along side of, beside”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|even|ish}} even + -ish, {{cog|stq|ieuwenske||next to, along side of, beside}} Saterland Frisian ieuwenske (“next to, along side of, beside”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} evenish (comparative more evenish, superlative most evenish)
  1. Somewhat even. Synonyms: evenlike, even-ish
    Sense id: en-evenish-en-adj-Bs9KfFvW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish

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          "text": "On the score of quality, some very in-and-out trials since tend to make the thirty-one exhibitors rather an evenish class, although to the eye it is long since a finer or more racing-looking lot ever came out ; Newmarket's pride, too, unquestionably having the best of it, both in the gifts of nature and the assistance of art.",
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