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Nosh vs Nesh - What's the difference?

nosh | nesh |

As verbs the difference between nosh and nesh

is that nosh is to eat a snack or light meal while nesh is to make soft, tender, or weak.

As a noun nosh

is food; a light meal or snack.

As an adjective nesh is

soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.

nosh

English

Noun

(es)
  • Food; a light meal or snack.
  • (slang, UK) Fellatio.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To eat a snack or light meal.
    • They were noshing on fruit.
  • (slang, UK) To perform fellatio (on); to blow.

    • Related terms

    * nosh up

    Anagrams

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    nesh

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nesh, nesch, nesche, from (etyl) hnesce, hnysce, . Compare also (l), (l), (l).

    Alternative forms

    *nish (Newfoundland English)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
  • *:
  • *:haue ye no merueylle sayd the good man therof / for hit semeth wel god loueth yow / for men maye vnderstande a stone is hard of kynde // for thou wylt not leue thy synne for no goodnes that god hath sente the / therfor thou arte more than ony stone / and neuer woldest thow be maade neysshe nor by water nor by fyre
  • Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
  • *1887 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Woodlanders) , :
  • *:And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.
  • *1913 , , (Sons and Lovers) , :
  • *:No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides.
  • Soft; friable; crumbly.
    • Usage notes
    * This is a fairly widespread dialect term throughout Northern England and the Midlands.
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) neschen, from (etyl) hnescan, .

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make soft, tender, or weak.
  • To act timidly.

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