kish
See also: Kish and kʼish
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology 1
From Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”).
Noun
kish (plural kishes)
- a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
- Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology 2
Compare German Kies gravel, pyrites.
Noun
kish (uncountable)
- The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Sikh, khis
Cahuilla
Noun
kísh
- A house