sievish
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formed as sieve + -ish. Compare memory like a sieve.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sievish (comparative more sievish, superlative most sievish)
- (figuratively, of memory, rare) Like a sieve: unretentive.
- 1982, Ferenc Máté, Best Boats: To Build or Buy, Albatross Publishing House, →ISBN, page 242, →ISBN:
- Perhaps I have a frighteningly sievish memory, but I’ll be damned if I can flip a folded chart back and forth and remember exactly what was on the other side.