🕛 Around midday 🕛 About noon

noonish

1 3.9

Happening around noon or just after midday

adjective
/ˈnuːnɪʃ/

: alrededor del mediodía

They plan to have lunch noonish before heading to the concert.

Examples

The meeting is scheduled for noonish, so please be on time.
- How about noonish?

Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
Should we say noonish?

Jigsaw (2002)
The train is expected to arrive noonish, around 12 PM.

How Close

high noon

9 3.9

noon

493 1.0

noonish

1 3.9

midmorning

1 2.8

Surface Forms

noonish positive

Morphology

noonish = noon (transparent) = noon + ish

The adjective is directly formed from the time noun 'noon' with the colloquial suffix '-ish' meaning 'approximately at; somewhat around'.

Etymology

Noonish comes from the word noon and the ending -ish, which means 'about' or 'like', as in greenish or smallish. So as an adjective, noonish means 'happening around noon'.