Definitions
Etymologies
- Compare German Kies gravel, pyrites. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But my inclination - call it the Evil Inclination if you must - is to say to these Suicidebaums: lech lim sotz, kish mirn tuchas, un chupa mes huevos, bitches.”
“If you not giving him enough kish, him squees him licker up into your naz, taco-tung style.”
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“Him jumps up into ur lap and presents him face for kish.”
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“We had decided to attend our local church, which celebrates an Hungarian mass, Father Kiss pronounced kish is the priest and talks with a thick accent, which is barely understandable.”
“Kesh/kish is therefore a common Irish word, reminding us that Heaney is not an English poet.”
“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.”
“If a customer was on drugs and showed it, or even broke out a stick of kish, I eased him out quickly and sent him down the line to the Chinaman's. \par”
“Midway in her descent her head struck against the edge of the steps, with a kish, such as an egg-shell makes when broken against the edge of a platter, and then plunged into the dark pool at my feet, where I could presently see her lying in the clear depths and the blood curling upward from the wound in her skull like a dark smoke.”
“Moooikill A Aitcha Ha ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.”
“Manny's th 'time I've seen him ride by our place, an' me father'd raise his head from th 'kish iv turf an' touch his hat to th 'gr-reat man.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kish’.
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phrontistery - k
from phrontistery.info
kyrielle, kyrie, kyphosis, kyriolexy, kymograph, kyloe, kyllosis, kylin, kvass, kurtosis, kyphorrhinos, ktenology and 189 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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50 K for 50K
A list of 50 words featuring the letter K to mark listing my 50,000th entry at Wordie/Wordnik. The 50,000th was kerasine because I'm fond of arcane adjectives. The Irish term kitthoge is a nod to m...
kerasine, killcow, kinkhab, kirking, kinetheodolite, killcrop, klendusic, kitthoge, kish, kistvaen, knickpoint, knosp and 38 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir A turf-creel. Dec 14, 2011