fesh-fesh

See also: feshfesh and fesh fesh

English

Etymology

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Noun

fesh-fesh (uncountable)

1. Fine dust (sand) that looks like solid ground but behaves like soft mud.
   • 1985, Richard Sale, For the president's eyes only:

     Then he plummeted into the desert and struck the fesh-fesh with ghastly impact.

   • 1987, Trevor Mostyn, Coming of age in the Middle East, page 40:

     The markers returned but the fesh-fesh was becoming worse. There had been a recent sandstorm.

   • 2008, Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq, To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle:

     Riding a bike into fesh-fesh is a very trying, if not disastrous, experience.