different between mish vs pish

English

Etymology

Simple spoken contraction of mission, missionary.

Pronunciation

Noun

mish (plural mishes)

1. (Britain, slang) Mission.
2. (slang) Missionary (sex position).
   • 1999, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Serpents Tail:

     The sex became mechanical sex a lot of the time, formula porn: 'blow, dog, mish, pop!' blow-job, then doggy style, then missionary position, followed by pop shot', as Jeremy Sullivan explains. And then amateur came along.

   • 2013, King Starr, The Hobbyist, Vagabondage Press LLC, page 123:

     Highlight: the massive testicular licking as they 69ed, and I traded doggie to mish and back again.

Anagrams

• HMIS, HMIs, SHIM, Shim, hims, shim

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mi??a < *me??a, from Proto-Indo-European *memsa- (“meat”). Compare Armenian ??? (mis), Serbo-Croatian meso, Russian ????? (mjáso), Tocharian B m?sa, Old Prussian mensa, Gothic ???????????????? (mimz), Sanskrit ???? (m??sá).

Pronunciation

• (Tosk, Gheg) IPA^(key): /mi?/

Noun

mish m (indefinite plural mishra, definite singular mishi, definite plural mishrat)

1. flesh; meat
2. flesh, naked skin

Derived terms

• mishërohem
• mishëroj
• mishngrënës
• i mishtë
• mishtor

References

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Etymology

From Old Irish messe.

Pronoun

mish

1. First person singular emphatic personal pronoun; I, me.
   • Creid mish! Believe me!
   • Mish lhiat! The same here!

Related terms

• mee (non-emphatic)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/

Interjection

pish

1. Expressing disdain.

Synonyms

• pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, bah, poh; see also Thesaurus:bah

Noun

pish (plural pishes)

1. A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.

Verb

pish (third-person singular simple present pishes, present participle pishing, simple past and past participle pished)

1. To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
2. To express contempt.

Adjective

pish (comparative more pish, superlative most pish)

1. (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.

Usage notes

• Most commonly found in the gerund or present participle pishing.

References

• pish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Dunne, Peter (2006). The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their Calls. ?ISBN.
• Langham, G. M.; Contreras, T. A. & Sieving, K. E. (2006). Why pishing works: Titmouse (Paridae) scolds elicit a generalized response in bird communities. Ecoscience 13 (4): 485–496. doi:10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[485:WPWTPS]2.0.CO;2

Anagrams

• -ship, HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, ship

Chinook Jargon

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fish, or possibly French pêche.

Noun

pish

1. fish

Etymology 2

From Chinook opitshka.

Noun

pish

1. fire

Synonyms

• piah

Mohegan-Pequot

Alternative forms

• beesh (obsolete orthography)

Etymology

From English peas.

Noun

pish

1. peas

References

• A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot (John D. Prince, Frank G. Speck)

Scots

Etymology

From late Middle English pyshe, variant of pisse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?sh, IPA^(key): /p??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

pish (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) Urine, piss.
2. (vulgar) Crust on a scabbing wound.

Verb

pish (third-person singular present pishes, present participle pishin, past pished, past participle pished)

1. To urinate, to piss.

Derived terms

• reekin o pish

Adjective

pish (comparative mair pish, superlative maist pish)

1. (vulgar) Not very good, in fact quite bad.

Interjection

pish

1. An expression of disdain.

References

• “pish” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Western Apache

Etymology

From English fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p????]

Noun

pish

1. fish