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What-like. World English Historical Dictionary

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What-like. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. What-like interrog. a. (sb.) arch. and dial. (Also as two words.) [orig. Sc.: f. WHAT pron. + LIKE a. (q.v. 1 b ¶), as in ‘What is he like?,’ after SUCH-LIKE.] Of what appearance or aspect. (Usually predicative.)

1 1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xi. I should be glad to know myself what like the fellow was.

2 1857.  Jas. Hamilton, Less. Gt. Biog., 309. It would be interesting to know what like man was in the primeval paradise.

3 1861.  Dickens, Gt. Expect., ix. What like is Miss Havisham?

4 1876.  Morris, Æneids, I. 751. Meanwhile unhappy Dido … asked … With what-like arms Aurora’s son had come unto the King.

5   b.  as sb. Aspect, appearance. nonce-use.

6 1853.  C. C. Leitch, in Mem. (1856), 125. The … questions of the whereabouts and the what-like of a new bungalow.

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