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hreflang="es" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Norwegian" lang="no" hreflang="no" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Norsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="ish" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ish" title="ish – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="ish" 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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wiktionary, the free dictionary</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="disambig-see-also"><i>See also:</i> <b class="Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ish" title="Ish">Ish</a></b>, <b class="Latn"><a href="/wiki/ISH" title="ISH">ISH</a></b>, <b class="Latn"><a href="/wiki/ish-" title="ish-">ish-</a></b>, <b class="Latn"><a href="/wiki/-ish" title="-ish">-ish</a></b><span class="serial-comma">,</span><span class="serial-and"> <i>and</i></span> <b class="Latn"><a href="/wiki/-%C3%ADsh" title="-ísh">-ísh</a></b></div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translingual">Translingual</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="/wiki/language_code" title="language code">language code</a> for </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639:ish" class="extiw" title="w:ISO 639:ish"><b>Esan</b></a><i>.</i></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="See_also">See also</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Esan_language" title="Category:Esan language">Wiktionary’s coverage of Esan terms</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ɪʃ/</span> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_in_southern_England" class="extiw" title="w:English in southern England">Southern England</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ish.wav" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ish.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ish.wav.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ish.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ish.wav.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">ish</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/pronunciation_spelling" title="pronunciation spelling">Pronunciation spelling</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/is#English" title="is">is</a></i></span></span>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Etymology 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#back-formation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Back-formation</a> from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/-ish#English" title="-ish">-ish</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Adverb">Adverb</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Adverb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">ish</strong> (<i>not <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparable" title="Appendix:Glossary">comparable</a></i>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#colloquial" title="Appendix:Glossary">colloquial</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/somewhat" title="somewhat">somewhat</a>, <a href="/wiki/reasonably" title="reasonably">reasonably</a>, <a href="/wiki/fairly" title="fairly">fairly</a> <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">The exam went well... mostly... <b>ish</b>.</i></div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">"Was the film any good?" – "<b>Ish</b>."</i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>26 May 2012</b>, Jason VandenBerghe, “The Five Domains of Play”, Gotland Game Conference, Uppsala University: <dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation" lang="en">This is where I started. Does Hermione like Dark Souls? <b>Ish</b>.</span></div></dd></dl></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#colloquial" title="Appendix:Glossary">colloquial</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/about" title="about">about</a>, <a href="/wiki/approximately" title="approximately">approximately</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1974</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" class="extiw" title="w:Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a>, <cite>Ending up</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">11</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">'With luck, about twelve.' 'Ah,' said Bernard. 'Twelve-thirty. <b>Ish</b>.'</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2007</b></span>, Marne Davis Kellogg, <cite>Friends in High Places</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">283</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">How old are you? Fifty-ish?" / "<b>Ish</b>." / The color flared in her cheeks but she didn't look as though she were going to shoot me.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2021</b></span> May, “Bogey”, in <span class="maintenance-line">(Please provide the book title or journal name)</span>:</span></div> (episode 38 of Manifest) <dl><dd>Eagen: "Don't blame Little House on the Prairie. I was very charming."<br />Angelina: "Did you lie about being an orphan too?"<br />Eagen: "Ish."</dd></dl></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Usage notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Like the suffix, the adverb is used only after the adjective it modifies, and never before.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Synonyms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">somewhat</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon sense-qualifier-colon">:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fairly#English" title="fairly">fairly</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/rather#English" title="rather">rather</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/somewhat#English" title="somewhat">somewhat</a></span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">approximately</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon sense-qualifier-colon">:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/about#English" title="about">about</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/almost#English" title="almost">almost</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/around#English" title="around">around</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/close#English" title="close">close</a></span> to, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/loosely#English" title="loosely">loosely</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/near#English" title="near">near</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/nearly#English" title="nearly">nearly</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/roughly#English" title="roughly">roughly</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/round_about#English" title="round about">round about</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations">Translations</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-reasonably,_somewhat,_(fairly)"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">reasonably, somewhat, (fairly)</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" 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<span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/halbwegs#German" title="halbwegs">halbwegs</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/halbwegs" class="extiw" title="de:halbwegs">(de)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/etwas#German" title="etwas">etwas</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/etwas" class="extiw" title="de:etwas">(de)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/mehr_oder_weniger#German" title="mehr oder weniger">mehr oder weniger</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-about,_approximately"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">about, approximately</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="about, approximately"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270" /> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/noin#Finnish" title="noin">noin</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/noin" class="extiw" title="fi:noin">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/approximativement#French" title="approximativement">approximativement</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/approximativement" class="extiw" title="fr:approximativement">(fr)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/%C3%A0_peu_pr%C3%A8s#French" title="à peu près">à peu près</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A0_peu_pr%C3%A8s" class="extiw" title="fr:à peu près">(fr)</a></span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/in_etwa#German" title="in etwa">in etwa</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/rund#German" title="rund">rund</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/rund" class="extiw" title="de:rund">(de)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/ungef%C3%A4hr#German" title="ungefähr">ungefähr</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/ungef%C3%A4hr" class="extiw" title="de:ungefähr">(de)</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_3">Etymology 3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Etymology 3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From Pitman <i><a href="/wiki/ess" title="ess">ess</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/eff" title="eff">eff</a></i>, which it resembles phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix <a href="/wiki/-ish" title="-ish">-ish</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">ish</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ishes#English" title="ishes">ishes</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li>The letter which stands for the <i>sh</i> sound <span class="IPA">/ʃ/</span> in <a href="/wiki/Pitman_shorthand" title="Pitman shorthand">Pitman shorthand</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/esh#English" title="esh">esh</a></span>, the IPA letter for the same sound</li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/zhee#English" title="zhee">zhee</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_4">Etymology 4</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Etymology 4"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Phonetic spelling of the <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#clipping" title="Appendix:Glossary">clipping</a> of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/issue#English" title="issue">issue</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_2">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">ish</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ishes#English" title="ishes">ishes</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#dated" title="Appendix:Glossary">dated</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/fandom" title="fandom">fandom</a> <a href="/wiki/slang" title="slang">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> An <a href="/wiki/instalment" title="instalment">instalment</a> of a <a href="/wiki/periodical" title="periodical">periodical</a>; an issue. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>1939</b> August 5, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Tucker" class="extiw" title="w:Wilson Tucker">"Bob" Tucker</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Zombie" class="extiw" title="w:Le Zombie">Le Zombie</a></cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.midamericon.org/tucker/lez10c.htm">[1]</a></sup>, number <span class="None" lang="und">10</span>, page 3:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">"A LITTLE UNPLEASANTNESS" DEPT: <u>Fantasy</u> <u>Digest</u> says in it's<sup style="font-style:normal">[<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#sic" title="Appendix:Glossary">sic</a></i>]</sup> latest <b>ish</b>: Quote: Some unpleasantness was caused when Don Wollheim and his brother Futurians were not allowed in the Convention Hall. Unquote.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1961</b></span> July, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Scithers" class="extiw" title="w:George H. Scithers">George H. Scithers</a>, <cite>Amra</cite>, volume 2, number <span class="None" lang="und">16</span>, page 2:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Next <b>ish</b>: a guide to who is who of the Howard heroes in the centerspread.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1967</b></span> June, Drake Maynard, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:If (magazine)">If</a></cite>, volume <span class="None" lang="und">17</span>, number 6, page <span class="None" lang="und">160</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">My sincerest apologies to Brother Ron Smith in the December <b>ish</b>.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/annish#English" title="annish">annish</a></span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/thish#English" title="thish">thish</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_5">Etymology 5</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Etymology 5"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Interjection">Interjection</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Interjection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">ish</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#informal" title="Appendix:Glossary">informal</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/regional#English" title="regional">regional</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/ick" title="ick">ick</a>, <a href="/wiki/yuck" title="yuck">yuck</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Related_terms_2">Related terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ishy#English" title="ishy">ishy</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="See_also_2">See also</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/eesh#English" title="eesh">eesh</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_6">Etymology 6</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Etymology 6"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From earlier <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/isht#English" title="isht">isht</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/minced_oath" title="minced oath">minced oath</a> <a href="/wiki/metathetic" title="metathetic">metathetic</a> alteration of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/shit#English" title="shit">shit</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_3">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">ish</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>)</span> </p> <ol><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_shit" data-lang="en" data-id="shit"> <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#euphemism" title="Appendix:Glossary">euphemistic</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/shit#Noun" title="shit">Shit</a> (in various senses). <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2010</b></span>, Jill Murray, <cite>Break On Through</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">15</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Anyone, really, but seriously, you'd think that people whose very passion depends on their lungs would want to cut that <b>ish</b> out</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2012</b></span>, Dipal Parikh, <cite>Walking with Krishna: Based on True Life Events</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">154</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I owe you a lot Dipal, so put that <b>ish</b> away.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2013</b></span>, Ivy McQuain, <cite>Get Your Head Out of the Clouds, This Is Business</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">25</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Now, it's time to get your <b>ish</b> together.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2015</b></span>, Ni-Ni Simone, Amir Abrams, <cite>Lights, Love & Lip Gloss</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">51</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I passed on that craziness. I wasn't messing with that <b>ish</b>.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">Periodical</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon sense-qualifier-colon">:</span> <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Jeff Prucher, editor (<span class="None" lang="und">2007</span>), “ish”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_Words" class="extiw" title="w:Brave New Words">Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction</a></cite>, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-530567-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-530567-8">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lJCS0reqmFUC&pg=PA">pages <span class="None" lang="und">101–102</span></a>.</span></span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">Periodical</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon sense-qualifier-colon">:</span> <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Sheidlower" class="extiw" title="w:Jesse Sheidlower">Jesse Sheidlower</a>, editor (<span class="None" lang="und">2001–2025</span>), “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1526/">ish n.</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Dictionary_of_Science_Fiction" class="extiw" title="w:Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction">Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction</a></cite></span></span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/His#English" title="His">His</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Hsi#English" title="Hsi">Hsi</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/IHS#English" title="IHS">IHS</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Shi#English" title="Shi">Shi</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/his#English" title="his">his</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/shi#English" title="shi">shi</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Albanian">Albanian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Albanian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_forms">Alternative forms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Alternative forms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="sq"><a href="/wiki/ush#Albanian" title="ush">ush</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#onomatopoeic" title="Appendix:Glossary">Onomatopoeic</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interjection_2">Interjection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Interjection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="sq">ish</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="use-with-mention">used to <a href="/wiki/chase#English" title="chase">chase</a> <a href="/wiki/chicken#English" title="chicken">chicken</a> <a href="/wiki/away#English" title="away">away</a></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ish&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fjalorthi.com/ish">ish</a>”, in <cite>FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe</cite> [<cite><span class="e-translation">Dictionary of the Albanian language</span></cite>] (in Albanian), <span class="None" lang="und">2006</span></span></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><cite>FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe</cite> [<cite><span class="e-translation">Dictionary of the modern Albanian language</span></cite>]‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://fjalori.shkenca.org">[2]</a></sup>, <span class="None" lang="und">1980</span></span></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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