What is "goodish"

Usage examples of "goodish".

Jim was fast asleep, but dad had been up a goodish while and got things ready for breakfast.

Well, word was passed about a branch bank at a place called Ballabri, where a goodish bit of gold was sent to wait the monthly escort.

They had been stamping and pawing, as if they had been there a goodish while and had time to get pretty sick of it.

Only now and then, when all things do not fall exactly as I wish them, when foolish, wicked people will persist in doing foolish, wicked acts, affecting my comfort and happiness, I rage and fret a goodish deal.

It was high summer, the finest summer Mother Abagail could recollect since 1955 the year her mother had died at the goodish age of ninety-three.

Thence it led in the same direction for a goodish piece, then made a sharp bend to the right and mounted more rapidly along the thinly wooded slopes.

We have had a goodish summer and the people have got some sunlight in their bones to help them through the winter.

I finished with the consul, I was on the phone a goodish time talking to your chief.

But no, if I am sincere about achieving genuine goodness in my life and thereby finding a way to reconnect with Norah, this means dealing with issues large and small, or else shifting my finite dispersal of goodness to goodish places such as the public library.

They set me at a rough trestle in front of a goodish breakfast of sour milk, black bread and tea.

If you want to know what I think, old man, your pal UnderhillI can't imagine what the deuce you see in him, but, school together and so forth, makes a difference, I suppose,I say, if you want to know what I think, Freddie, the blighter Underhill would be well advised either to leg it after Jill and get her to marry him or else lie low for a goodish while till people have forgotten the thing.