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Definition of Dankish
1. a. Somewhat dank.
Definition of Dankish
1. Adjective. Somewhat dank. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dankish
1. musty [adj] - See also: musty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dankish
Literary usage of Dankish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists: With Conjectural Emendations of the Text by Karl Elze (1880)
"My conjectural emendation dankish has been received into the text by Messrs ...
in a dark and dankish vault at home. Another emendation may, however, ..."
2. Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists: With Conjectural Emendations of the Text by Karl Elze (1880)
"HAZLITT'S DODSLEY, VII, 204. i\Iy conjectural emendation dankish has been ...
dankish occurs in the Comedy of Errors, V, I, 247: — And in a dark and dankish ..."
3. Registrum Ecclesiae Parochialis: The History of Parish Registers in England by John Southerden Burn (1862)
"If you will have this Book last, bee sure to aire it att the fier or in the Sunne
three or foure times a yeare—els it will grow dankish and rott, ..."
4. Old English Social Life as Told by the Parish Registers by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1898)
"It will not be amisse, when you find it dankish, to wipe over the leaves with a
dry woollen cloath. This place is very much subject to ..."
5. The Rutland Magazine and County Historical Record by George Phillips (1908)
"If you will have this book last, be sure to aire it at the tier or in the sunne,
three or foure times a yeare, els it will grow dankish and rott, ..."
6. English Villages by Peter Hampson Ditchfield (1905)
"will grow dankish and rott, therefore look to it. It will not be amisse when you
find it dankish to wipe over the leaves with a dry wollen cloth. ..."
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