What is "softish"

Usage examples of "softish".

At the time they started the rig again they were at four thousand six hundred and making over twelve feet an hour through softish rock.

Now that we were in softish country it was only necessary to pull pipe every other day and about all that was required of a roughneck on each shift was to add a length of pipe when the travelling block was down to the turntable.

But he put out his hand and felt a small, softish object placed in his palm.

I am softish, but I am afraid of dropping back into my old ways if I leave, so I am hovering.

I could not escape observing so remarkable a distinction as a black mossy tuft, out of which appeared to emerge a round, softish, limber, white something, that played every way, with ever the least motion or whirling eddy.

This involved quite a lot of whooping and the occasional softish collision, making the whole ship shudder.

The ring at the end was probably softish silver and the gap in it may have opened with the weight of the pencil.

He slit the top delicately, holding the letter, which was fat and softish, in a pair of forceps, and drew out a wad of Bank of England five-pound notes and a half-sheet of notepaper.