Usually means: Around the age of forty.
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  1. fortyish: Merriam-Webster
  2. fortyish: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fortyish: Wordnik
  4. fortyish: Wiktionary
  5. fortyish: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. fortyish: Dictionary.com
  7. fortyish: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See forty as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fortyish)

▸ adjective:  Close to the number forty
▸ adjective:  About forty years old.

Similar:
forty-leven, forty-oneth, eightyish, fiftyish, thirtyish, thirtysomething, 40th, sixtyish, forty-fourth, quadragenarian, more...

Opposite:
twentysomething, thirtysomething, fiftysomething

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Similar:
forty-leven, forty-oneth, eightyish, fiftyish, thirtyish, thirtysomething, 40th, sixtyish, forty-fourth, quadragenarian, more...

Opposite:
twentysomething, thirtysomething, fiftysomething



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