yellowish

CEFRB1

/ˈjɛləʊɪʃ/

adjective

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Yellowish leafs can be synonym for plagues.
The content of that polyethylene bottle is cloudy and yellowish. Could it be urine?

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.
1955 January 26, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19
A biologist has named a newly discovered species of moth after our next president. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi is a wee little creature found in parts of California and Baja, Mexico. […] It seems nature favors fancy golden hairdos as much as the man himself (who could forget China’s beloved Trump bird?), because the N. donaldtrumpi sports a very familiar-looking crown of yellowish scales.
2017 January 18, AJ Willingham, “New moth named in honor of Donald Trump”, in CNN

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From Middle English ȝelowisch; equivalent to yellow + -ish.