cosh
Translingual edit
Pronunciation edit
Symbol edit
cosh
Usage notes edit
The symbol cosh is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol ch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.
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English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Probably from Romani košter (“stick”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cosh (plural coshes)
- A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.
- A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
- (UK, education, slang, dated) The cane.
- 1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The lore and language of schoolchildren, page 374:
- There is no need here to digress on the advantages or otherwise of using a 'cosh' in schools […]
- 2019, John Loveday, The Boy from Rod Alley, page 115:
- Often, he walked around the room with the cosh in his hand, taking slashes at legs that happened to stray sideways […]
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
cosh (third-person singular simple present coshes, present participle coshing, simple past and past participle coshed)
- (transitive) To strike with a weapon of this kind.
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Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
cosh (comparative more cosh, superlative most cosh)
Anagrams edit
Manx edit
Noun edit
cosh
Mutation edit
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cosh | chosh | gosh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Narragansett edit
Noun edit
còsh
Further reading edit
- Roger Williams (1643) A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 28
Yola edit
Noun edit
cosh
- Alternative form of coshes (“conscience”)
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 10-11:
- az Irishmen, an az dwellerès na cosh an loyale o' Baronie Forthe,
- as Irishmen, and as inhabitants, faithful and loyal, of the Barony Forth,
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116