Definitions
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- noun role-playing games A
magician , or character that is skilled in bothphysical combat and the use ofmagic . Most gish characters use their magical abilities to increase their own personal combat abilities (known as "buffing "). - noun slang An
outsider .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Monbiot has long been a critic of the debate format for discussing climate change, because it allow denialists (who only have to sow doubt) to engage in the gish gallop, which forces anyone who cares about the truth to engage in a hopeless game of whack-a-mole.
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Monbiot has long been a critic of the debate format for discussing climate change, because it allow denialists (who only have to sow doubt) to engage in the gish gallop, which forces anyone who cares about the truth to engage in a hopeless game of whack-a-mole.
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They have at their disposal rhetorical tricks like the gish gallop.
Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? - Part 2 2010
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Monbiot has long been a critic of the debate format for discussing climate change, because it allow denialists (who only have to sow doubt) to engage in the gish gallop, which forces anyone who cares about the truth to engage in a hopeless game of whack-a-mole.
Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis (Mobiot/Lomborg debate) | Serendipity 2009
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They have at their disposal rhetorical tricks like the gish gallop.
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Deny there is a problem and run with Big Carbon and schill loud enough at a 'gish gallop' love that phrase! that we should all be luddites or shut up – and you really will procrastinate us all into a mess we can't fathom.
Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010
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I think the next role Brad has to do is portray a young-gish Robert Redford. blog comments powered by Disqus
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It was Magath's sole decision to spend big on big (gish) names such as the striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and the attacking midfielder José Manuel Jurado instead of concentrating on defence, where Christoph Metzelder does his best to remind everyone why Bild dubbed him "Brother Snore" during the 2008 Euros.
Hoffenheim and Mainz surge on as records and Michael Ballack tumble 2010
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I hope this fellow gets over whatever he has, but gish…get this trial going and convict the guitly dude!
Dominick Dunne hospitalized: “I am in a lot of pain. Lot of pain” 2008
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Mine come out in a “gah – gish!” sound more often than not, so if possible, I work hard for more of an “atchoo.” on October 26, 2007 at 2:40 pm | Reply sphyrnatude
skipvia commented on the word gish
A water balloon breaking on Susie Derkin's head. From Calvin and Hobbes. See Match the Onomatopoeia.
December 18, 2007
Irongryphon3 commented on the word gish
I have heard the term gish before, but with a completely different meaning: to kill, to squish. As in: He gishes the spider. My dad found it many years ago in a cartoon in Mad Magazine and now my whole family uses it.
February 12, 2016