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nesh

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7
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7
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4
Pronunciation
/nɛʃ/

Definition of nesh

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (UK, dialectal)Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
    “haue ye no merueylle sayd the good man therof / for hit semeth wel god loueth yow / for men maye vnderstande a stone is hard of kynde /[…]/ for thou wylt not leue thy synne for no goodnes that god hath sente the / therfor thou arte more than ony stone / and neuer woldest thow be maade neysshe nor by water nor by fyre”
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adj

  1. (UK, dialectal)Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
    “haue ye no merueylle sayd the good man therof / for hit semeth wel god loueth yow / for men maye vnderstande a stone is hard of kynde /[…]/ for thou wylt not leue thy synne for no goodnes that god hath sente the / therfor thou arte more than ony stone / and neuer woldest thow be maade neysshe nor by water nor by fyre”
  2. (UK, dialectal)Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
    “And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.”
    “No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides.”
    “"I wouldn't have locked up Noakes and stolen a car if I'd known you couldn't pick the lock!" "Aye, exactly, you're nesh, so you needed encouragement."”
  3. (UK, dialectal)Soft; friable; crumbly.

verb

  1. (transitive)To make soft, tender, or weak.
  2. (Northern-England, dialectal, intransitive)To act timidly.

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Etymology

From Middle English nesh, nesch, nesche, from Old English hnesċe, hnysċe, næsċe (“soft, tender, mild; weak, delicate; slack, negligent; effeminate, wanton”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwī, from Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“soft, tender”),…

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From Middle English nesh, nesch, nesche, from Old English hnesċe, hnysċe, næsċe (“soft, tender, mild; weak, delicate; slack, negligent; effeminate, wanton”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwī, from Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“soft, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *knēs-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Scots nesch, nesh (“soft, tender, yielding easily to pressure, sensitive”), Dutch nesch, nes (“wet, moist”), Gothic 𐌷𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌵𐌿𐍃 (hnasqus, “soft, tender, delicate”). Compare also nask, nasky, nasty.

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