different between sesh vs esh

English

Etymology

Short form of session.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

sesh (plural seshes)

1. A session
   1. (colloquial) A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
   2. (colloquial) An informal social get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.
   3. (Britain, Ireland, informal) A period of sustained social drinking or recreational drug taking.
   4. (Australia, Canada, US, informal) 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, page 39,

"Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox…"

References

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

Anagrams

• Hess, SHEs, she's, shes

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish seis or seys (“six”), possibly influenced by Hebrew ?????? (“six”).

Numeral

sesh (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ????)

1. six

Welsh

Etymology

From English sesh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Noun

sesh f (plural seshys, not mutable)

1. (colloquial) sesh, session (period of time engaged in some group activity)

   Synonym: sesiwn

2. (colloquial) sesh (period of sustained social drinking)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “sesh”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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