"sievish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Formed as sieve + -ish. Compare memory like a sieve.",
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      "form": "more sievish",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1982, Ferenc Máté, Best Boats: To Build or Buy, Albatross Publishing House, →ISBN, page 242, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Perhaps I have a frighteningly sievish memory, but I’ll be damned if I can flip a folded chart back and forth and remember exactly what was on the other side.",
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        "Like a sieve: unretentive."
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          "sieve",
          "sieve#English"
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          "unretentive",
          "unretentive#English"
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        "(figuratively, of memory, rare) Like a sieve: unretentive."
      ],
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        "of memory"
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        "rare"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪvɪʃ/"
    }
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  "word": "sievish"
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  "etymology_text": "Formed as sieve + -ish. Compare memory like a sieve.",
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      "form": "more sievish",
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      "form": "most sievish",
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          "ref": "1982, Ferenc Máté, Best Boats: To Build or Buy, Albatross Publishing House, →ISBN, page 242, →ISBN:",
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        "Like a sieve: unretentive."
      ],
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          "sieve",
          "sieve#English"
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          "unretentive",
          "unretentive#English"
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        "(figuratively, of memory, rare) Like a sieve: unretentive."
      ],
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