different between sesh vs nesh

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

• IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English nesh, nesch, nesche, from Old English hnes?e, hnys?e, hnæs?e (“soft, tender, mild; weak, delicate; slack, negligent; effeminate, wanton”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskw?, from Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“soft, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *kn?s-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Scots nesch, nesh (“soft, tender, yielding easily to pressure, sensitive”), Dutch nesch, nes (“wet, moist”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (hnasqus, “soft, tender, delicate”). Compare also nask, nasky, nasty.

Alternative forms

• nish (Newfoundland English)

Adjective

nesh (comparative nesher, superlative neshest)

1. (now Britain dialectal) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
2. (now Britain dialectal) Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 4:

     And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.

   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Chapter 8:

     No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides.

3. (now Britain dialectal) Soft; friable; crumbly.

Usage notes

• This is a fairly widespread dialect term throughout Northern England, North Wales and the Midlands.

Derived terms

• neshen
• neshness

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English neschen, from Old English hnes?an, hnes?ian (“to make soft, soften; become soft, give way, waver”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskw?n (“to make soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *kn?s-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Old High German nasc?n ("to nibble at, parasitise, squander"; > German naschen (“to nibble, pinch”)). Doublet of nosh.

Verb

nesh (third-person singular simple present neshes, present participle neshing, simple past and past participle neshed)

1. (transitive) To make soft, tender, or weak.
2. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To act timidly.

Anagrams

• NHEs, Shen, hens