Nightish vs Eightish - What's the difference?
nightish | eightish |
Of or pertaining to night; nocturnal.
*1989 , Edward Taylor, Donald E. Stanford, The Poems of Edward Taylor :
*1998 , Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle :
*2011 , Barry Irwin Brophy, The Weak and Foolish Things of Seattle :
As an adjective nightish
is of or pertaining to night; nocturnal.As a noun eightish is
any time close to eight o'clock.nightish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When hawks shall dread the silly fowl, / And men esteem the nightish owl — George Turberville.
- Star light's nights twinkling. Moonlight is nightish , Sun makes day: [...]
- Nightish folk working their sleepingcity functions in the bright squares of office windows. People untouched by day, smugly snug. You wonder at this darker world of theirs. You grow querulous and bewildered.
- Opening his eyes, James was faced with nightish disturbing pool.