"offish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From off + -ish.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1917, Henry James, The Sense of the Past",
          "text": "The English, he was perfectly aware, had been held by the American to be offish and haughty, and the American had stiffened itself to show that, since the question was of turning an unconscious back, the game was playable wherever backs were broad enough to show....",
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        "Aloof, standoffish."
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        "(informal) Aloof, standoffish."
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          "ref": "2014 August 22, Laura Rosenfeld, “They Reunited & It Feels So Good”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 2022-06-29",
          "text": "Nicole mentioned in her exit interview with Julie that she doesn't know if she and Hayden will make their romance \"offish\" once Big Brother is over, but she did say they will remain friends. I can certainly work with that.",
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          "ref": "2016 September 15, Ian Servantes, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, “A History of Kylie Jenner and Tyga's (Resurrected and Thriving) Relationship”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-10-13",
          "text": "What a ride it's been, people. Kylie Jenner and Tyga reportedly ended their relationship today more than a year after rumors of their coupling first began. The two denied the rumors for months, though their names kept popping up in headlines together more often than ratchetness and Florida. Conspicuously, they became an offish couple as soon as Kylie turned 18 and them boning was no longer illegal under California laws.",
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          "ref": "2020 June 16, Paisley Gilmour, “When should you make a new relationship official? Women are sharing how many dates it took them”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-22",
          "text": "Women on Reddit are sharing after how many dates/amount of time seeing each other they made it offish.",
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        "Clipping of official."
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        "(colloquial) Clipping of official."
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        "Aloof, standoffish."
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        "(informal) Aloof, standoffish."
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          "ref": "2014 August 22, Laura Rosenfeld, “They Reunited & It Feels So Good”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 2022-06-29",
          "text": "Nicole mentioned in her exit interview with Julie that she doesn't know if she and Hayden will make their romance \"offish\" once Big Brother is over, but she did say they will remain friends. I can certainly work with that.",
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          "ref": "2016 September 15, Ian Servantes, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, “A History of Kylie Jenner and Tyga's (Resurrected and Thriving) Relationship”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-10-13",
          "text": "What a ride it's been, people. Kylie Jenner and Tyga reportedly ended their relationship today more than a year after rumors of their coupling first began. The two denied the rumors for months, though their names kept popping up in headlines together more often than ratchetness and Florida. Conspicuously, they became an offish couple as soon as Kylie turned 18 and them boning was no longer illegal under California laws.",
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          "ref": "2020 June 16, Paisley Gilmour, “When should you make a new relationship official? Women are sharing how many dates it took them”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-22",
          "text": "Women on Reddit are sharing after how many dates/amount of time seeing each other they made it offish.",
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        "Clipping of official."
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