"workish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From work + -ish.",
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          "ref": "2010, Kim Izzo, Ceri Marsh, The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum",
          "text": "If you are attending a professional affair, then your dress must be toned down; even a smart pant ensemble will suffice. You may look more “workish,” but what comes out of your lips should be no different than that at a party.",
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          "ref": "2012, Rita M. Yeasted, Jon: John Oliver Nelson and the Movement for Power in the Church",
          "text": "However, Jack commented in his diary that the retreat was “not too workish, but then most occasions minimum on labor these days,” work being a component of all early Kirkridge retreats.",
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        "Resembling or relating to work; characteristic or typical of work"
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        "Fond of work; industrious; diligent"
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        "(UK, dialectal) Fond of work; industrious; diligent"
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