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Sesh vs Sosh - What's the difference?

sesh | sosh |

As nouns the difference between sesh and sosh

is that sesh is (colloquial) a period of time spent engaged in some group activity while sosh is (scottish) co-op (short for "association" store).

sesh

English

Noun

(seshes)
  • (colloquial) A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
  • (colloquial) An informal social get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.
  • A period of sustained social drinking.
  • A period of sustained cannabis smoking.

    • Quotations

    Meaning 1: :* July 18, 1987 , Financial Times , page 6, :: "'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week." :* 2005 , Bruce Pegg, Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry , Routledge, page 51, :: "There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo." Meaning 2: :* E.g., snowboarding: "Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down." April 11, 2007, Dave Driscoll, Transworld Snowboarding Magazine . : Examples of usage in Usenet groups: :* Playing video games together: "Halo sesh " (2002) :* Surfing: "Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington. Wore my spring suit." (2003) Meaning 3: :* 1944 , George Netherwood, Desert Squadron , Cairo, R. Schindler, page 119, :: "Empty lager bottles signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh ." :* 1999 , Ian Rankin, Black and Blue , St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312966776, page 39, :: "Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox…"

    References

    * , Second Edition, Addition Series 1993 * The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Vol. II , 2005, and Dalzell Victor Eds, Published by Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 041525938X, page 1699 * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang , 2006, Jonathon Green, Published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., ISBN: 0304366366, page 1252 * The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang , Tony Thorne, 1990, Published by Pantheon Books, ISBN 0679737065, page 448.

    Anagrams

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    sosh

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (Scottish) co-op (short for "association" store).
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1888 , title=Auld Licht Idylls , authorlink=J. M. Barrie , last=Barrie , first=J. M. , publisher=Hodder and Stoughton , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=CaYAAAAAMAAJ&dq=auld%20lichts%20idylls%20sosh&pg=PA77
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    Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, .... Willie Todd, the best man, ... slipped through the back window ... and making a bolt for it to the "'Sosh ," was back in a moment with a handful of small change.
    Barrie's usage is annotated in Hammerton, cited below.
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    • , year=1896 , title=Rantin Robin & Marget: With Other Scottish Sketches & Homely Rhymes , last=Blair , first=Alick , location=Arbroath , publisher=T. Buncle & Company , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=qqYlAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22the%20sosh%22%20grain&pg=PA82
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    • , page=82 }}
    An' as I thocht that a wee hair o' pepper would help to gie the gruel a gude flavour, I opened ane o' the wee bits o' pockies that had been brocht by Marget on the Saturday frae the Sosh an' put in a grain o' its contents.
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    • , year=1897 , title=Sprays of Northern Pine , last=Mackenzie , first=Fergus , publisher=Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier , page=110}}
    Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.
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    • , year=1900 , author=Sir John Alexander Hammerton , title=J. M. Barrie and his books: biographical and critical studies , publisher=Horace Marshall and Sons , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Sx9LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA248&dq=sosh+store&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Yio2UY_MFsXN0AHXh4G4Cw&ved=0CEoQ6AEwAw
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    • , page=248}}
    In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh [.]”
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    • , title=Herbert Hoover A Reminiscent Biography , last=Irwin , first=Will , publisher=The Century Company , pageurl=http://archive.org/stream/herberthooverare007945mbp/herberthooverare007945mbp_djvu.txt , page=50 , year=1928 }}
    In Hoover's second year there rose a prophet of the "barbs" or non-fraternity men whose appropriate name was Zion. His constant tilting against things as they are gave him the nickname of "Sosh " short for Socialist.
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    • , year=1981 , author=Cameron Crowe , title=Fast Times at Ridgemont High , publisher=Simon and Schuster , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?ei=rSc2UcqMIOrb0wGEq4HwDg&id=YUkrAQAAIAAJ&dq=sosh+climber&q=sosh
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    This, more than anything else, was the true sign of a high school social climber known as the “sosh'.” The teeth-baring ' sosh (long o) began as a glimmer in the eye.
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    • , year=2003 , author=Michael Allen Dymmoch , title=The Feline Friendship , publisher=Macmillan , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dGQA2AGvT4AC&dq=sosh+number&source=gbs_navlinks_s , page=33}}
    He handed her a paper with Erik Last's DOB and Visa card number. "This guy wouldn't give me his sosh ." His social security number.
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    • , year=2009 , author=Robert Lockwood, Jr. , title=Political Ducks: Lucky, Lame, and Dead , publisher=Xlibris , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=HwCmns2lanUC&pg=PA241&dq=sosh+number&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DSA2UZubDOiq0AGHl4H4Ag&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCDhG
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    • , page=241}}
    Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department [....] “Sosh ,” as the academic department was called [....]
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    • , year=2009 , author=Sean Scalmer , chapter=‘for the sake of a straight out fight’: The Free Traders and the Puzzle of the Fusion , editors=Paul Strangio, Nicholas Dyrenfurth , title=Confusion: The Making of the Australian Two-Party System , publisher=Melbourne University Press , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=E6Hd7FUX9n8C&pg=PA87&dq=sosh+number&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xyE2UZ6-Jejo0gGozYGYBQ&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBzha
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    In the face of Reid's prominent ‘anti-Sosh ’ campaign (in reality an attempt to wedge Deakin's supporters), Labor held its ground in the 1906 election [....]
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    • References

    * {{quote-book , title=The English Dialect Dictionary , volume=R-S , year=1904 , editor=Joseph Wright , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=v4FBAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA625&dq=sosh+dictionary&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Eyk2UYD9HKq80QG-zICAAQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA
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    • , page=625}} *: (Entry on sosh , including verbal and adverbial meanings.)