threadish
Threadlike or thready.
Adjective
- Threadlike or thready.
- Pulse is fast, and full, and threadish; Skin is hot, and dry, and reddish; - 1898, The Medical Counselor - Volume 17, page 126:
- Meat is not popular with me — too threadish, especially beef. - 1996, Beryl Gilroy, Gather the Faces, page 47:
- He tied the splint into place with cord he'd made from long, threadish needle-grass awns. - 2000, Terry Schiffman, Adam and Even, page 130:
Origin
From thread + -ish.