eddish
English
Alternative forms
- edish, edige, eatage, earsh.
Etymology
Uncertain; but probably from Middle English eddish (found often in compounds: e.g. eddish-hen (“eddish-hen, quail”)), ultimately from Old English edisc (“an eddish or aftermath; pasture; enclosed pasture, park”), equivalent to ed- + -ish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛdɪʃ/
Noun
eddish (countable and uncountable, plural eddishes)
- An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been mowed; also, a field of such growth.
- Synonyms: aftergrass, aftermath, fog
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 1”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:
- The hay was gathered from the fields, and the cattle turned onto the eddish.
Translations
aftergrowth of grass after mowing
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See also
- edgrow, edgrowth
Anagrams
- dished