kish

See also: Kish and kʼish

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɪʃ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta.

Noun

kish (plural kishes)

  1. a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.

Etymology 2

Compare German Kies (“gravel, pyrites”).

Noun

kish (uncountable)

  1. The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Cahuilla

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *ki. Cognate with Northern Tepehuan kií.

Noun

kísh

  1. A house

Yola

Noun

kish

  1. Alternative form of kishe
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1:
      "Murreen leam, kish am."
      To my grief, I am a big old sow.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 106
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