different between sash vs sosh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Arabic ????? (š?š, “muslin cloth”).

Noun

sash (plural sashes)

1. A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.

   Synonyms: belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband

2. A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.

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Translations

Verb

sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)

1. (transitive) To adorn with a sash.
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,^[2]

     […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.

Etymology 2

[circa 1680] From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.

Noun

sash (plural sashes)

1. The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, p. 91,^[3]

     One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and writes upon the Glass of the Sash in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone.

   • 1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”),^[4]

     Away to the window I flew like a flash,

     Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.

   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2,^[5]

     She chiefly recalled the Square under snow; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put right now)!

2. (software, graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.

   Synonym: splitter

3. In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.

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Translations

Verb

sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a sash.
   • 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2,^[6]

     The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,

Derived terms

• unsashed

References

Anagrams

• shas, šâhs, š?hs

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /so??/

Etymology 1

Noun

sosh (plural soshes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department […] “Sosh,” as the academic department was called […]

   • 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 […]

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sosh.
   1. (slang) A social security number.

      • 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.

Etymology 2

Short for association store.

Noun

sosh (plural soshes)

1. (Scotland, slang) A co-op.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.

   • In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh[.]”

References

• Joseph Wright, editor (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume R-S, page 625

  (Entry on sosh, including verbal and adverbial meanings.)

Anagrams

• Hoss, Sohs, hoss, shos, sohs