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noonish

noonish

4.7
At about noon
  • adverb
  • /ˈnuːnɪʃ/
translation icon : 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
798 1.0

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

How Close

high noon
9 3.9
noon
493 1.0
noonish
4.7
midmorning
1 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'.