nesh
/nɛʃ
/adjective dialect
(Especially of a person) weak and delicate; feeble: it was nesh to go to school in a topcoat...
- It confirms London's Transport system is on the verge of collapse and people who live in the capital - to use a word they don't understand - are nesh.
Derivatives
neshness
- I don't know for certain; but I should be inclined to think it was from general neshness of constitution.
Origin
Old English hnesce, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dialect nes 'soft or foolish'.
Rhymes
- the Fifteen
- the final straw
- the finer points of
- the finished article
- the firing line
- (the) first among equals
- (the) first cab off the rank
- the Flat
- the Fleet
- the Flemish
- the Flood
- the fog of war
- the forbidden degrees
- the Forties
- the fortunes of war
- the Forty-five
- the fountain of youth
- the four freedoms
- the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- the four main centres
- the fourth estate
- the fourth wall
- the Free State
- the free world
- the Fringe