cheerish

English

Etymology

From cheer +‎ -ish.

Adjective

cheerish (comparative more cheerish, superlative most cheerish)

1. (rare) cheerful
   • 1902, Light, volume 2, page 93:

     The sunny South develops a different view of life, a different literature and a different art from the lightless North. Here a clear smiling sky and a joyful disposition in a cheerish mind, […]

   • 1930, Journal of Education, volumes 111-112, page 425:

     Did you give a cheerful greeting to the boy who came along, / Or a cheerish sort of "howdy" and then vanish in the throng?

Derived terms

• cheerishness

Anagrams

• Cheshier, Cheshire