sharpish

Somewhat sharp (sudden, abrupt).

Adjective

  1. Somewhat sharp (sudden, abrupt).
    • The car made a sharpish turn.
    • On straights speed would quicken to what was apparently the maximum allowed on this stretch, 140 k.p.h., or 87.5 m.p.h., and then one would see the track disappearing ahead round a sharpish curve, for there are some of...
  2. Somewhat sharp; not blunt.
    • a sharpish knife

Origin

Etymology tree English sharp Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English sharpish From sharp + -ish.

Derived

sharpishly

Adverb

  1. Rapidly, soon.
    • You'd better mend your ways sharpish!
    • Packed my valise sharpish, afraid the ship might sail back to England with me still aboard; or rather, afraid of my letting this happen. - 2004, David Mitchell, “Letters From Zedelghem”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 47: