kish
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta.
Noun edit
kish (plural kishes)
- a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
Etymology 2 edit
Compare German Kies (“gravel, pyrites”).
Noun edit
kish (uncountable)
References edit
- “kish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Cahuilla edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *ki. Cognate with Northern Tepehuan kií.
Noun edit
kísh
- A house
Yola edit
Noun edit
kish
- Alternative form of kishe
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
- "Murreen leam, kish am." Ich aam goan maake mee will.
- To my grief, I am a big old sow. I am going to make my will,
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 106