fesh-fesh
English
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Noun
edit- Fine dust (sand) that looks like solid ground but behaves like soft mud.
- 1985, Richard Sale, For the president's eyes only:
- Then he plummeted into the desert and struck the fesh-fesh with ghastly impact.
- 1987, Trevor Mostyn, Coming of age in the Middle East, page 40:
- The markers returned but the fesh-fesh was becoming worse. There had been a recent sandstorm.
- 2008, Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq, To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle:
- Riding a bike into fesh-fesh is a very trying, if not disastrous, experience.