imshiint.
/ˈɪmʃi/, U.S. /ˈɪmˌʃi/ Services' slang.
Be off, go away. Also as v.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [phrase] > exhortation to depart or go away
begonec1370
hence with —— !1534
via1600
show your shapes1699
walk your bodyc1730
run along (with you)!1803
to jump (or go (and) jump) in the lake1912
imshi1916
1916 Anzac Bk. 135/2 And the King-of-all-the-Huns said, ‘It is enough, Imshee!’ Note, Imshee is the Arabic for ‘go away’. The Australasian Corps, which had so far employed it only to street hawkers in Cairo, used this war~cry on April 25.
1916 Anzac Bk. 136/1 So they imsheed.
1919 Athenæum 28 July 664/2 ‘Imshy’, go away (generally corrupted into something like ‘hampshire’).
1942 Word Study Dec. 6/2 ‘Imshi,’ said the drongo; ‘you're shikkered!’
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iv. 70 Now, imshee~allah!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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