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Dampish

adjective
1.
Slightly wet.  Synonyms: damp, moist.  "A moist breeze" , "Eyes moist with tears"






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"Dampish" Quotes from Famous Books



... flowers, renders it one of the most effective and handsome. The foliage is large, and resembles that of the common Horse Chestnut, while the pure white flowers, with their long projecting stamens and red-tipped anthers, are very pretty and imposing when at their best in July. It succeeds well in rich, dampish loam, and as a shrub for standing alone in any conspicuous position it ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster

... lonesome and dampish. Ghosts and toadstools is apt to locate in houses of that sort," placidly responded ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 - Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott

... as to follow me to the parlour, and drink a glass of wine, we will take a first look at these same papers together. And you, Mrs Chiddock, as I said, be about airing this chamber.... Yes, it is here my grandfather died.... Yes, the tree, perhaps, does make the place a little dampish.... No; I do not wish to listen to any more. Make no difficulties, I beg. You have your orders—go. Will you ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • Montague Rhodes James

... as don't sit well on your stummuk! Or, it may be, the klimat o' this hyar destrict. Sartin it do feel a leetle dampish, 'count o' the river fog; tho', as a general thing, the San Sabre bottom air 'counted one o' the healthiest spots in Texas. S'pose ye take a pull out o' this ole gourd o' myen. It's the best Monongaheely, an' for a seedimentary o' the narves thar ain't it's eequal to be foun' in any drug-shop. ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... damp, better get under cover, Jim," urged John Berwick. Indeed Jim did have a dampish look—his eyelashes and eyebrows were beaded ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt



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