nesh
/nɛʃ
/adjective dialect
(Especially of a person) weak and delicate; feeble: it was nesh to go to school in a topcoat...
- It confirms London's Transport system is on the verge of collapse and people who live in the capital - to use a word they don't understand - are nesh.
Derivatives
neshness
- I don't know for certain; but I should be inclined to think it was from general neshness of constitution.
Origin
Old English hnesce, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dialect nes 'soft or foolish'.
Rhymes
- noise generation
- noise generator
- noiseless
- noiselessly
- noiselessness
- noise level
- noise limiter
- noisemaker
- noise margin
- noise money
- noise music
- noisenik
- noise pollution
- noise-pop
- noiser
- noise-rock
- noise-shaping
- noises off
- noisesome
- noise spectrum
- noise storm
- noise suppression
- noise suppressor
- noise temperature
- noisette