Definitions
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- noun a
basket used in Ireland, mainly for carryingturf - noun The
graphite formed incidentally iniron smelting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But my inclination - call it the Evil Inclination if you must - is to say to these Suicidebaums: lech lim sotz, kish mirn tuchas, un chupa mes huevos, bitches.
Jeff Dorchen: The Suicidebaums and the Self-Hating Jews 2008
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If you not giving him enough kish, him squees him licker up into your naz, taco-tung style.
small boxr… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Him jumps up into ur lap and presents him face for kish.
small boxr… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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We had decided to attend our local church, which celebrates an Hungarian mass, Father Kiss pronounced kish is the priest and talks with a thick accent, which is barely understandable.
At My Table 2006
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We had decided to attend our local church, which celebrates an Hungarian mass, Father Kiss pronounced kish is the priest and talks with a thick accent, which is barely understandable.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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Kesh/kish is therefore a common Irish word, reminding us that Heaney is not an English poet.
Kesh & Loaning Tracy, Robert 1980
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Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road.
Kesh & Loaning Tracy, Robert 1980
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If a customer was on drugs and showed it, or even broke out a stick of kish, I eased him out quickly and sent him down the line to the Chinaman's. \par
Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973
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Midway in her descent her head struck against the edge of the steps, with a kish, such as an egg-shell makes when broken against the edge of a platter, and then plunged into the dark pool at my feet, where I could presently see her lying in the clear depths and the blood curling upward from the wound in her skull like a dark smoke.
I Talk of Dreams 1914
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Moooikill A Aitcha Ha ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
hernesheir commented on the word kish
A turf-creel.
December 14, 2011