wearish

adjective /ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/

1. Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.

   obsolete

2. Sickly, wizened, feeble.

   obsolete

   Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].

Where it comes from

From Middle English warssh, werisch, werische, werish, werissh, werssh, werysshe, of unknown origin; compare Modern English dialectal wairsh and Early Modern English wersh; perhaps related to Middle English wery (modern weary).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry wearish (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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