kish

• IPA^(key): /kɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

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

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.

Compare German Kies (“gravel, pyrites”).

kish (uncountable)

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

• “kish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Sikh, khis

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

kísh

1. A house

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,

• 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