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nish

nish pronoun: nothing.

Pronoun

nish

  1. (UK, slang) Nothing.
    • If you like the director you do it for nish, so Marcus Thompson got us all to do it for nothing.1998 March 4, Janie Lawrence, quoting Ian Dury, “The Dury's Out”, in The Independent
    • I've got nish to say to you. You can save your breath.2017, Dreda Say Mitchell, Blood Mother: Flesh and Blood Trilogy Book Two, Hachette UK, →ISBN

Noun capitalized: Nish

Nish (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, clipping, informal, Anishinaabe English terminology) Clipping of Anishinaabe/Nishnaabe.

Proper noun capitalized: Nish

Nish

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Niš, Serbia.
    • From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is...1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731

Origin of nish

Borrowed from Polari, originally from German nichts (“nothing”) or Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”).

Words that rhyme with nish

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Questions about nish

What does nish mean?
Nish means nothing.
What part of speech is nish?
Nish can be a pronoun, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near nish in the dictionary

  1. Nisenans
  2. nisey
  3. niseys
  4. Nisga'a
  5. Nisg̱a'a
  6. nish
  7. Nisha
  8. Nishada
  9. Nishadas
  10. Nishakara
  11. Nishan Sahib

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