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noonish

1 4.7

At about noon

adverb
/ˈnuːnɪʃ/

: alrededor del mediodía

Let's meet noonish so we can have lunch together.

Examples

He said he would arrive noonish, but he was a little late.
The meeting is scheduled for noonish today.
The store opens noonish on Sundays, so we should go in the afternoon.
Let's meet around noonish.
Let's meet at noonish for lunch before my afternoon meeting.
He plans to arrive noonish, so we have time to prepare lunch.
The event starts noonish, giving everyone some time to gather.

Antonyms

midnight

796 1.0

Twelve o'clock at night when one day ends and the next begins

How Close

high noon

17 3.9

noon

482 1.0

noonish

1 4.7

midmorning

2 2.8

Surface Forms

noonish positive

Morphology

noonish = noon (transparent) = noon + ish

Adverbial use is derived from the same base 'noon' with '-ish' indicating approximation in time; the formation is colloquial but semantically clear.

Etymology

Noonish is formed from noon plus the ending -ish, meaning 'about' or 'approximately', just like in sevenish or greenish. So used as an adverb, noonish means to do something 'at or around noon'.