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Definition of Peakish
1. a. Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.
Definition of Peakish
1. Adjective. (colloquial) Of or relating to a peak or peaks; belonging to a mountainous region. ¹
2. Adjective. (colloquial) Having peaks; peaked. ¹
3. Adjective. (colloquial) Having thin or sharp features, as from sickness; sickly; peaky. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peakish
1. somewhat sickly [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peakish
Literary usage of Peakish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"2 ; 'Snow on peakish Hull' (hill), Drayton, Pastorals, Eel. ... See NED., where '
peakish' is shown to refer (probably) to the ' Peak' in Derbyshire. pearl, ..."
2. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1902)
"Warn., Alb. Eng. Her skin as soft as Lemster wool As white as snow on peakish hull.
Or swanne that swims in Trent. Drayton, Shepherd's Garland, 1593. ..."
3. Underwoods by Ben Jonson (1640)
"With the peakish ... With, Here, is to the fruit of Pern, Grafted upon Stub his
stem; With the peakish ..."
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