Word.ws English Dictionary

thish

thish noun: a self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.

Noun

thish (uncountable)

  1. (dated, slang) A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
    • Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 30
    • I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.1996 March, R. Graeme Cameron, “Editorial”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, volume 3, number 1 (whole number 5), page 2
  2. (dated, slang) A reference to the specific issue of a periodical currently under discussion.
    • Thish of TWS was really a shock to me, and I'm not pulling any punches!1953 August, D. Clarkson, “[letter]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 135
    • Only story I really enjoyed in thish was THE VANISHER.1955 Spring, Pat Scott, “Pat Me Gently [letter]”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 10, page 92

Origin of thish

Blend of this + ish (“issue”).

Questions about thish

What does thish mean?
Thish means a self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
What part of speech is thish?
Thish is a noun.

Words near thish in the dictionary

  1. thisaway
  2. Thisbe
  3. Thisby
  4. thisclose
  5. thises
  6. thish
  7. thismiaceous
  8. Thisne
  9. thisness
  10. thisnesses
  11. thissen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.