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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Offish \Off"ish\, adjective Shy or distant in manner; aloof; stand-offish. [Colloq. U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
offish
adjective: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: {standoffish}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "offish": Olympian, above all that, ailing, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, donsie, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, indisposed, insociable, introverted, low, mean, modest, off-color, poorly, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, sickly, solitary, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, unbending, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, withdrawn
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