Crossword-Solution: OFFISH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Offish | a. | Shy or distant in manner. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OFFISH | anagram | FISHOF |
We have 9 clues for the answer “OFFISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kettle ___ (muddle). | 1 answer |
| Rudely unapproachable in manner: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| Somewhat unfriendly | 1 answer |
| Unfriendly: piscatorial? | 1 answer |
| distant in manner | 2 answers |
| BEYOND ALOOF | 10 answers |
| uncommunicative | 20 answers |
| Unapproachable | 29 answers |
| Aloof | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OFFISH (5)
There was a whole history in those snow tracks, mine alone and kind of offish, and the others cuddling together.
The beachcomber is perhaps the most interesting character here; the natives are very different, on the whole, from Polynesians: they are moral, stand-offish (for good reasons), and protected by a dark tongue.
She acted sort of offish to the Doctor and he didn't go there, and there wa'n't anybody to do anythin' for her.
They never were tired when anything was to be done, or cross when it had been done, or under any circumstances peevish, or pouty or "offish." They were ready for everything and content with anything.
Good-night! I say--you didn't mind my coming to you this way, did you? By Jove! I thought you were a little stand-offish at first.
Quotes with OFFISH (3)
Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.
She's not my type,' Carter says.'So what is your type?''Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional.''Skinny?' I squeal.'Definitely. Pretending to be shy, sensible and stand-offish when really you're mad about me.''You sure about that?''No, but I'm hoping.
Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of a train, grim, hurried, stand-offish, brusque, fastidious and spiteful, surrounded by other passengers whom one has never seen before, whom one will never see again and towards whom the only conceivable way of behaving is to make sure that they keep away from …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1953–2015).