mish

See also: Mish

English

Etymology

Simple spoken contraction of mission, missionary.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mish (countable and uncountable, plural mishes)

1. (British, slang, countable) A mission or task.
   • 2015, Marlee Jane Ward, Welcome to Orphancorp:

     I haven't been on a mish in ages. I need some excitement. Do you get mad toey and hungry afterwards?

2. (slang, uncountable) Missionary (sex position).
   • 1999, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Serpents Tail:

     The sex became mechanical sex a lot of the time, formula porn: 'blow, dog, mish, pop!' blow-job, then doggy style, then missionary position, followed by pop shot', as Jeremy Sullivan explains. And then amateur came along.

   • 2013, King Starr, The Hobbyist, Vagabondage Press LLC, page 123:

     Highlight: the massive testicular licking as they 69ed, and I traded doggie to mish and back again.

References

• (mission): Tony Thorne (2014) “mish”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

Anagrams

• HMIS, HMIs, SHIM, Shim, hims, shim

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *miśśa < *meśśa, from Proto-Indo-European *memsa- (“meat”). Compare Armenian միս (mis), Serbo-Croatian meso, Russian мя́со (mjáso), Tocharian B mīsa, Old Prussian mensa, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz), Sanskrit मांस (māṃsá).

Pronunciation

• (Tosk, Gheg) IPA^(key): /miʃ/

Noun

mish m (plural mishra, definite mishi, definite plural mishrat)

1. flesh; meat
2. flesh, naked skin

Derived terms

• i mishtë
• mishërohem
• mishëroj
• mishngrënës
• mishtor

 

Further reading

• Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 10: “caro, carne — misc”

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish messe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪʃ/

Pronoun

mish

1. First person singular emphatic personal pronoun; I, me.

   Creid mish! ― Believe me!

   Mish lhiat! ― The same here!

Related terms

• mee (non-emphatic)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Pipil mishtun (“cat”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiʃ/ [ˈmiʃ]
• Rhymes: -iʃ
• Syllabification: mish

Noun

mish m (plural mish, feminine misha, feminine plural mishas, masculine misho, masculine plural mishos)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala) kitten

   Synonym: michi

Further reading

• mish | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE