kish

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See also: Kish and kʼish

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta.

Noun

kish (plural kishes)

  1. a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
    • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
      the whole kish emptied on [the turf-fire] at once... (c. 1)
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.

Etymology 2

Compare German Kies (“gravel, pyrites”).

Noun

kish (uncountable)

  1. The graphite formed as a byproduct in iron smelting.

References

Anagrams

Cahuilla

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *ki. Cognate with Northern Tepehuan kií.

Noun

kísh

  1. A house

Yola

Noun

kish

  1. 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

  • 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
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