nesh

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /nɛʃ/ UK /nɛʃ/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like ness /s/ vs /ʃ/ Sounds like gnash /ɛ/ vs /æ/

Meanings

1

adj
sensitive to cold; soft or delicate (dialectal)

Put on a coat, you nesh thing, it's barely autumn.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · sensitive to cold; soft or... delicate soft tender weak feeble chilly

Opposites

hardy tough robust

Etymology

From Old English hnesce ('soft, tender, weak'), cognate with Dutch nesch and Gothic hnasqus; survives chiefly in northern English dialect.

hnesce Old English

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