Examples
“The pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, pronounced CHAHAR-kesh-veely”
“It minds me o' when I tellt t' doctor I was bad wi' my chest and he said it was reflective pain from my left leg. Hearts is kittle cattle at best, and jumpy as a kesh.”
The Guardian: From the archive, 26 January 1942: Polite conversation
“Ken MacLeod ken scholes keri arthur kesh kevin hearne kevin j. anderson kevin smith”
“Beside it was a plaque of wood and burned into it with a needle were the words made in long kesh concentration camp.”
“Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road.”
“Despite Alvarez, kesh and loaning do "figure as such in the biggest Oxford dictionary.”
“Alvarez is annoyed at the poem's "verbal affectations" — Nerthus, kesh, loaning — in a "poem as brief, unsubstantial, and apparently simple as this.”
“I have one more favour to ask of my master, said I, which is, that he will deign to accept a small _peish-kesh_, a present from his humble slave; it is a praying-carpet, and, should he honour him so far as to use it, he hopes that now and then he will not forget the donor in his prayers.”
“_ [32]] [Footnote 32: There are two Japanese words, _kesh [= o] _, which in”
“Kesh, kesh, kinsable," said he, "stop, stop; who knows but you are taking us over to your Fort to have us all killed by the Osages?”
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Conlangs and Fantasy Languages
Names of constructed languages (excluding Tolkien's, which get a list of their own) and languages presented only in works of fiction. I'm going to be flexible about what gets listed and include bot...
esperanto, volapük, idiom neutral, latino sine flexione, ido, occidental, interlingue, interlingua, novial, glosa, adjuvilo, afrihili and 223 more...
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whiskers
words that describe facial hair,
some cute ones heremoustache, moustached, bewhiskered, bumfluff, burnsides, burnside, dundrearies, handlebar, imperial, kesh, beard, goatee and 82 more...
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