Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bikh.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as bikh.

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  • noun UK, slang A mistake.
  • abbreviation chess bishop
  • abbreviation bishop

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Examples

  • Except, that is, in the rather more than the 50% of the cases – according to NHS figures –where nature make a bit of a bish and science intervenes with forceps, scissors, anaesthetic, emergency c-sections.

    Please, render unto caesareans a little less hysteria | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Real Madrid 1-1 Barcelona Puyol, 49 min: Forget tiki-taka, sometimes you just need a bit of bish and a bit of bosh.

    Real Madrid v Barcelona – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012

  • In 39 years of One Day International cricket (the medium-length version, as opposed to the five-day tactical teeter-totter that is Test cricket and the bish-bash-bosh of Twenty20, cricket's fast-food format), no individual has ever scored 200 runs in an innings before.

    Tendulkar the Terrific Richard Lord 2010

  • They said it was because he'd used the invitation for political purposes and not at all because they'd made a frightful bish by inviting a racist pig in the first place.

    This week: Conrad Black, Nick Griffin and Keith Chegwin 2010

  • In 39 years of One Day International cricket (the medium-length version, as opposed to the five-day tactical teeter-totter that is Test cricket and the bish-bash-bosh of Twenty20, cricket's fast-food format), no individual has ever scored 200 runs in an innings before.

    Tendulkar the Terrific Richard Lord 2010

  • The craysee bish in charge wrote me down as a volunteer to wash cars from 11 to 12 the very next day.

    wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2009

  • Benedict makes international news only when he does something thoughtless (like "reconciling" with a Holocaust-denying bish-op) or when he fumbles in public, as he did on the plane to Cameroon in March when he awkwardly noted that AIDS "cannot be overcome by the distribution of prophylactics; on the contrary, they increase it."

    How to Sell a Better Pope 2009

  • Bish bosh bish bosh slap it on feathering is for losers mate ta dah done.

    L'Oreal: Ironically, We Don't Care What People Look Like Cosmo7 2009

  • I cant believe how blind the american people are, countrys economy is in ruins, fighting wars through lies and deception from its leaders but it looks like yet again they will vote the republican party back with a bloke as a president that looks half dead and is just another bish war monger, and palin becuase shes got a skirt and lipstick people seem to forget the last 8 years.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • All it involves is a bit of accidentally unsafe sex, nine months of eating coal and – bish bash bosh – there's a baby at the end of it.

    Jamie Lynn Spears Loves Being Her Illegitimate Baby’s Teen Ma 2008

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  • mistake

    April 7, 2009

  • saw a "bish" shirt.

    the tweets suggest a new meaning not yet listed.
    -edit - not sure of what the phrase on the shirt was.

    July 1, 2015

  • Found possible meanings and examples here: http://ya-bish.com

    July 1, 2015

  • In the sense of the aggressive tag phrase, am I right to assume that "ya bish" derives from the gangsterish Italian word "capisci?" (pronounced "kapeesh"), meaning "Have I made that clear enough?"

    July 1, 2015