Wannish vs Annish - What's the difference?
wannish | annish |
(obsolete) quite wan, quite pale
*{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Hezekiah Butterworth, title=The Log School-House on the Columbia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Leigh Gordon Giltner, title=The Path of Dreams, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=John Keats, title=Keats= Poems Published in 1820, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet! }}
(dated, fandom slang) Issue of a periodical that marks the anniversary of its first publication.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1950
, date = February
, first = Art
, last = Rapp
, authorlink =
, title = Timber!
, magazine = Spacewarp
, url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Spacewarp/Spacewarp35-02.html
, volume =
, issue = 35
, page = 2
, passage = And if the remainder of the March ish is as good as it begins, it'll be something! There will be two -- at least -- new columns inaugurated in the Third Annish -- plus some BNF's contribbing other items to the lineup.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1952
, date = April
, first = Gregg
, last = Calkins
, authorlink =
, title =
, magazine =
, volume = 13
, issue = 3
, page = 12
, passage = On January 1st, 1952 (past history to you readers) I expect to put out Volume 1, Number 1 of OOPSLA, my own fan mag. Sub rates are 10c per copy, 60c a year at a bi-monthly schedule. At that price goes the possibility of an annish .
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1986
, date = November
, first = Walt
, last = Willis
, authorlink =
, title = The Harp That Once or Twice
, magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
, url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy8-06.html
, volume =
, issue = 8
, page = 6
, passage = Professor rich brown has recently promulgated a theory of the Conservation of Egoboo, which postulates that the amount of egoboo resulting from any given piece of fanac is constant. He points out that Nydahl is now as famous for his gafia as he would have been if his annish had received the acclaim he expected.
}}
As an adjective wannish
is (obsolete) quite wan, quite pale.As a noun annish is
(dated|fandom slang) issue of a periodical that marks the anniversary of its first publication.wannish
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