Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Eye dialect spelling of is.
- adv. colloquial somewhat, reasonably, fairly
- adv. colloquial about, approximately
- n. The name of the letter which stands for the sh sound IPA: /ʃ/ in Pitman shorthand.
Etymologies
- From the suffix -ish. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The use of the term ish (man) for a newborn boy is odd.”
“Posted on May 18, 2010 under australia | No Comment ish is the course for anyone who wants to progress quickly from the basics to understanding speaking and writing Finnish with confidence.”
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“When you see staffers leaving the RNC, you know some soap opera ish is going down.”
“The most obvious way from preventing a single religion from becoming Mary Sue-ish is to create a second religion with a fundementally different belief system.”
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“He and Green Arrow leave JLA hq and the rest of this ish is vignettes showing how some of the rest of what will become this new team have arrived at these same conclusions.”
“This first ish is all set-up with very little in the way of direct action.”
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“I thought this looked interesting, so … this 2nd ish is full of shocks and wildness, several deaths and a Death Goddess (two appearances by Hela in the same week may just be a portent).”
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“(Even though I had some quibbles with the term "ludonarrative dissonance", I hope it came through that I really really admire Hocking and I think that the insights he offered in that piece are excellent; part of my ish is just that the terminology got in the way of recognizing his contribution.)”
“My favorite tripe in midtown-ish is from the crispy tripe tacos at Tehuitzingo.”
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“LOL Braveheart-ish is simular but this is cooler on many levels.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ish’.
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Suffix
-able, ade, age, al, an, ian, ance, ant, ar, ard, arian, ary and 60 more...
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that other ish
slang terms, daily verbage, and so forth.
ish, skanky, frick frack, crazelton, shiz, loverly, jessie spano'ed, caboo, cockerspaniel, crypes, shyst
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Pseudo-edge
The middle-aged corporate marketer's version of a teen lexicon.
ultimate, extreme, chillin, totally, bling, karma, stoke, smooth, flav, punch, ish, hype and 46 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
doing, boing, going, tincture, pingback, womenswear, jounce, wrack, a, ish, beeswax, thither and 97 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Teen Speak
frenemy, lulz, gobsmacked, BFF, FTW, sperglord, copyleft, beanplate, ish, facepalm, famewhore, starfucker and 6 more...
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chicie's words she likes
well, i kinda just signed up two seconds ago, and don't really know what i'm doing yet. so here i'll add words i like. some i know i like more than others, but i'll sort that out later.
maniacal, delusional, rather, ah, lugubrious, cadaver, ish, cellar door, penumbra, elusive, ethereal, punctilious and 22 more...
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zachhale's Words
octopus, amoeba, intellect, froth, noob, latency, malleable, plethora, agnostic, stoked, word, preposterous and 45 more...
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82times's Words
memesta, homepwnership, misuse, berrypicking, sparkline, standard, feckless, typo, selvage, puffy, ish, interoperability and 12 more...
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Pifaninjat's Words
pifaninjat, ish, love, pie, pi, norrington, admiral, jar of dirt, ethereal, ambarevriel
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