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Timid, to some Britons
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nesh
Word definitions for nesh in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 (label en now UK dialectal) soft; tender; sensitive; yielding. alt. (label en now UK dialectal) soft; tender; sensitive; yielding. Etymology 2 v 1 (context transitive English) To make soft, tender, or weak. 2 (label en intransitive dialectal ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nesh is an English dialect adjective meaning 'unusually susceptible to cold weather' and there is no synonym for this use. Usage has been recorded in Staffordshire , the East Midlands , Lancashire , South Yorkshire and Shropshire . There is a similar term ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tender, delicate, weak," now a Northern England dialect word, from Old English hnesce "soft in texture" (cognate with early modern Dutch nesch , Gothic hnasqus ), of unknown origin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nesh \Nesh\, a. [AS. hnesc, hn[ae]sc, akin to Goth. hnasqus.] Soft; tender; delicate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Usage examples of nesh.
Every few meters 3-D nesh projections flashed on and began their fixed lec-ture-and-display: the old ruins came to life, if nesh could be called life or perhaps more correctly only the simulation of life.
Rose stumbled over the concrete threshold and found herself in a dilapidated museum, long since gone to seed with the collapse of the tourist trade in nesh reconstructions of ancient sites.
Always as they rowed on among the craft that crowd the eastern channels of the Ninety Isles, under the windows and balconies of houses that lean out over the water, past the wharves of Nesh, the rainy pastures of Dromgan, the malodorous oil-sheds of Geath, word of his deed had gone ahead of him.
After all, what was it but an envelope of nesh to provide mobility for the mind?
His face was grim and strained, his Nesh pale as he lashed out with Stormbringer against the other clochs.