Noun: kish
| Singular | kish |
| Plural | kishes |
Sample Sentences
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the whole kish emptied on [the turf-fire] at once... (c. 1) [1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:]
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Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds. [1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:]
Nouns inflected like kish
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta. See: Irish Nouns '
cis'.