US /nɛʃ/ UK /nɛʃ/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    sensitive to cold; soft or delicate (dialectal)

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

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Synonyms
1 adj · sensitive to cold; soft or... delicatesofttenderweakfeeblechilly
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Etymology

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

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