different between esh vs ush

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

esh (plural eshes)

1. The IPA symbol ?.

Anagrams

• (s)he, EH&S, EHS, HSE, SHE, She, ehs, he's, hes, hse, s/he, she, she-

Albanian

Alternative forms

• es, eshk

Etymology

From South Slavic; cf. Macedonian ?? (ež), Serbo-Croatian ???? (j?ž).Alternatively, variant eshk would be more conservative, from Proto-Albanian *etska, with devoicing from *edz-k-a, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e??is; cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (ekhînos), Macedonian ?? (ež), German Igel, Lithuanian ež?s.

Noun

esh m (indefinite plural eshë, definite singular eshi, definite plural eshët)

1. (regional) hedgehog
2. (regional, figuratively) look-alike, doppelgänger

Declension

Synonyms

• iriq, uriq

References

English

Etymology 1

Back formation from usher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

ush (third-person singular simple present ushes, present participle ushing, simple past and past participle ushed)

1. (colloquial, rare, transitive and intransitive) To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
   • 2000, Jonathan Pearce, John-Browne's Body and Sole: A Semester of Life, BalonaBooks (2006), ?ISBN, page 142:

     And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.

Etymology 2

Clipping of usual.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Adjective

ush (comparative more ush, superlative most ush)

1. Alternative form of uzhe; Clipping of usual.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:uzhe.

Noun

ush (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of uzhe; Clipping of usual.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:uzhe.

Anagrams

• HUS, Hsu, Hus, SHU, Shu, Suh, shu', suh, uhs