ish1
/ɪʃ
/adverb informal
To some extent: ‘Are you busy?’ ‘Ish’...
- I am still waiting for you to hook me up with a 40 ish or 50 ish woman!
- Now, he has a Jewish (ish) name.
- This time next week she'll be back home for good ish!
Origin
1980s: from -ish1.
ish2
/ɪʃ/noun informal
An issue of magazine, journal, etc. the super duo appears in the latest ish...
- Don't dare miss next ish!
- Who could resist this teaser for the next ish?
- A caption reminds us of the weighty importance of Peter's dangling question from the previous ish.
Origin
1940s: informal abbreviation of issue.
ish3
/ɪʃ/noun [mass noun] US informal
Used as a euphemism for ‘shit’: that ish was hard for me to watch...
- The Jonas Brothers were the ish back in the late 2000s.
- Didn't he like invent that ish?
- You gotta peep the vids, funny as ish.
Origin
1990s: alteration of shit.
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