bladish

English

Etymology

From blade +‎ -ish.

Adjective

bladish (comparative more bladish, superlative most bladish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).
    • 1985, The Journal of the Bihar Purāvid Parishad, volumes 9-10, page 13:
      […] a bladish flake of tachylite […] recovered from the tilted basal hardened sandy fine gravel ascribable to the second phase of this period.
  2. (archaic) Resembling or characteristic of a blade (dashing young man).
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      […] the smaller portrait painted a brisk, unentangled, young bachelor, gayly ranging up and down in the world; light-hearted, and a very little bladish perhaps; […]
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