Usually means: Suffix indicating approximation or similarity.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word ish:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. -ish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -ish, -ish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. -ish, ish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Ish, -ish, ish: Wordnik
  5. -ish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Ish, -ish, ish: Wiktionary
  7. -ish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. -ish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. -ish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ISH, -ish: Dictionary.com
  11. -ish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. ...Ish (album), Ish, ...ish (audio drama): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. -ish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. -ish, ish: MyWord.info
  16. ish: Free Dictionary
  17. ish: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. ish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. -ish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ISH: Netlingo
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ISH: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ISH: Acronym Finder
  2. ISH: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ish, ish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. I.S.H, I.S.H, The ish, ish: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (colloquial) somewhat, reasonably, fairly
adverb:  (colloquial) about, approximately
noun:  The letter which stands for the sh sound /ʃ/ in Pitman shorthand.
noun:  (dated, fandom slang) An instalment of a periodical; an issue.
noun:  (euphemistic) Shit (in various senses).
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Ishmael.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Ishani.
verb:  Pronunciation spelling of is. [(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.]
noun:  Initialism of in situ hybridization.

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