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kadish|ˈkɑːdɪʃ|
Also 9 gedish.
[Arab. kadīš, f. O.Turk. igdiş a cross-breed, f. igiḏ- to feed, rear; cf. Turk. idiş gelding.]
An Arabian horse that is not a thoroughbred; a cross-bred horse, a nag; a gelding.
a1817J. L. Burckhardt Trav. Syria & Holy Land (1822) 295 A man with two or three is esteemed wealthy; and such a one has probably two camels, perhaps a mare, or at least a Gedish (a gelding), or a couple of asses. 1879A. Blunt Let. 6 May in Lady Wentworth Authentic Arabian Horse (1945) 26 They have made my horses vulgar ‘Kadishes’. 1924Blackw. Mag. Mar. 346/2 Others less generous or more cautious sent kadish horses, only fit for the plough. 1945Lady Wentworth Authentic Arabian Horse i. 34 All Oriental potentates regarded the Arabian as the only Horse and the rest as ‘Kadishes’, a word which exactly corresponds to the word ‘cur’ in English. It was the excellence of these Arabians..whose fame earned for the country-bred Kadishes a reflected radiance. 1970A. Dent tr. Schiele's Arab Horse in Europe 24 If there were the tiniest lacuna or unknown quantity in its ancestry, it was no longer regarded as ‘asil’ and was demoted to the status of ‘kadish’. |