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
- litter box
- litterbug
- litter case
- litter lout
- littermate
- litter tray
- little
- Little American
- Little Americanism
- Little Ararat
- Little Audrey joke
- little auk
- Little Bear
- Little Bighorn, Battle of
- Little Bighorn River
- little black dress
- little black frock
- little bluestem
- little boy
- little-boy-lost
- little boys' room
- Little Brother
- little by little
- little chief hare
- Little Corporal