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Kish vs Kush - What's the difference?

kish | kush |

As nouns the difference between kish and kush

is that kish is a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf while kush is marijuana, or a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.

As proper nouns the difference between kish and kush

is that kish is an ancient city of Sumer, located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad while Kush is Cannabis indica, especially strains with high THC content.

kish

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cis, .

Noun

(es)
  • a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
  • :*1922 : Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds. — James Joyce, Ulysses

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) Kies gravel, pyrites.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    kush

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Marijuana, or a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
  • * 2013 , Kevin Donovan, “ Rob Ford: Gang members targeted mayor in blackmail plot, police documents say”, in the star.com , Dec. 4:
    • Later in the day, Siyad is heard on a wiretap telling another man that he received “1.5 of kush'” (slang for marijuana) from “Rob Ford’s driver.” Later Siyad tells another person, a woman, that what he received was actually “Rob Ford’s ' kush .”
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