eish
/eɪʃ
/exclamation South African informal
Used to express surprise, annoyance, pain, etc. eish, I never winǃ woke up with cramp, eish...
- About to do my tax, finally. What a thing to do on a Sunday night. Eish
- Eish! The way I took a long nap this afternoon, I'm going to struggle to sleep later!
- Some are saying that I am stereotyping them about stereotyping me; eish!
Origin
1990s: from Tsotsitaal, a township patois.
- statistical mechanics
- statistical physics
- statistical significance
- statistical tables
- statistician
- statisticise
- statisticize
- statistics
- statistology
- Statius, Publius Papinius
- stative
- statively
- stativity
- statization
- statize
- stato-
- statoacoustic
- statoblast
- statoblastic
- statocone
- statoconium
- statocracy
- statocyst
- statocyte
- statogenesis