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Sullen, sulky. -- Mump"ish*ly, adv. -- Mump"ish*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously. -- Pop"ish*ly, adv. -- Pop"ish*ness, n.

Given to rude play; inclined to romp. --- Romp"ish, adv. -- Romp"ish*ness, n.

Somewhat ropy.

Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

t; timorous to excess. Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature. Locke. -- Sheep"ish*ly, adv. -- Sheep"ish*ness, n.

Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.

o speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish. The taunting address of a snappish missanthrope. Jeffrey. -- Snap"pish*ly, adv. -- Snap"pish*ness, n.

Somewhat steep. Carlyle.

to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self. [Written also tappis, tappish, tappice.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so soft. Chapman.

To relieve from the dumps. [Obs.] Fuller.

Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. [Colloq.] T. Brown. -- Up"pish*ly, adv. [Colloq.] -- Up"pish*ness, n. [Colloq.]

Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. He was naturally a waspish and hot man. Bp. Hall. Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. Pope.

The practice of aping; an apish action. Coleridge.

Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine. "A beauish young spark." Byrom.

Dandified; foppish.

Low; vulgar. [R.] Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.

Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.