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Tonish, tonnish. 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. 1916, rev. 2022. Tonish, tonnish a. Now rare. Also 8 ton-ish. [f. TON3 + -ISH1.] Having ‘ton’; fashionable, modish, stylish. Hence Tonishly adv., Tonishness.

1 1778.  Crt. of Adultery, 6. The finer features of a Ton-ish face.

2 1779.  Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 26 May. Lord Mordaunt,… a prelty, languid, tonnish young man. Ibid. (1780), April. The young lady … half tonish, and half hoydenish. Ibid., May. Mrs. North, who is so famed for tonishness, exhibited herself in a more perfect undress than I ever before saw any lady … appear in.

3 1802.  Coleridge, Lett., I. 368. I should be a thing in vogue,—the very tonish poet.

4 1804.  Eugenia de Acton, Tale without Title, III. 14. Our elevated, spirited, and tonnish readers.

5 1825–9.  Mrs. Sherwood, Lady of Manor, I. vi. 242. The Dashwood family … spending their money in the most lavish and tonish style.

6 1872.  C. D. Warner, Saunterings (1873), 11. A footman … wore the same colors; and the whole establishment was exceedingly tonnish.

7 1895.  Funk’s Stand. Dict., Tonishly.

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