Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make soft, tender, or weak.
- Soft; tender.
- Delicate; weak; poor-spirited.
- Soft; friable; crumbly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or Prov. Eng. Soft; tender; delicate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Soft ;tender ;yielding . - adjective
Delicate ;weak ; poor-spirited;susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc. - adjective Soft;
friable ;crumbly . - verb transitive To make soft, tender, or
weak .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I mist tat consert butsnerk will definatwy will see teh nesh wun.
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Those of you calling me nesh can bloody well come visit here in August.
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I would have loved Sarah to get married to Scofield they have this lovely chemistry btwn them. nesh
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He said he could not speak out before the women folk, but he was noways nesh to pick his words onst he was outside.
Red Pottage 2004
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Launcelot, for thou wilt not leave thy sin for no goodness that God hath sent thee; therefore thou art more than any stone, and never wouldst thou be made nesh nor by water nor by fire, and that is the heat of the Holy Ghost may not enter in thee.
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For while many of us may have grown up in vicarages where there seemed to be no money, and while we too heard talk of "dilapidations," the diocesan funds required for the repair of our homes, or were sometimes spoken of in the north of England as "nesh" if we seemed to require more cosseting than a young person should, rather fewer of us experienced the kind of squalor that Sage evokes.
The Woman Who Did Fenton, James 2002
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Following it, they came at the distance of three bowshots to a little bay, where they found a number of canoes well provided with paddles, and in each a calebash of good nesh-caminnick, and a piece of roasted deer's flesh.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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The nesh [43] yonge coweslepe bendethe wyth the dewe;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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"No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi 'thy nesh sides."
Sons and Lovers 1913
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"No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi 'thy nesh sides."
Sons and Lovers 1907
she commented on the word nesh
Fresh, delicate, soft (Applied to fruit, vegetables, and foliage—though there's no need to count people out)
July 11, 2008
oroboros commented on the word nesh
To act timidly, according to NPR's Says You
December 19, 2010
yarb commented on the word nesh
No, it's not a verb.
December 19, 2010
qms commented on the word nesh
Still warm from the oven and fresh
A new loaf heals spirit and flesh.
Succumb to the spell
Of crust like a shell
And crumb that is fragrant and nesh.
June 16, 2016