mish

See also: Mish

English

Etymology

Simple spoken contraction of mission, missionary.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

mish (countable and uncountable, plural mishes)

1. (British, slang, countable) A mission or task.
   • 2015, Marlee Jane Ward, Welcome to Orphancorp:

     I haven't been on a mish in ages. I need some excitement. Do you get mad toey and hungry afterwards?

2. (slang, uncountable) Missionary (sex position).
   • 1999, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Serpents Tail:

     The sex became mechanical sex a lot of the time, formula porn: 'blow, dog, mish, pop!' blow-job, then doggy style, then missionary position, followed by pop shot', as Jeremy Sullivan explains. And then amateur came along.

   • 2013, King Starr, The Hobbyist, Vagabondage Press LLC, page 123:

     Highlight: the massive testicular licking as they 69ed, and I traded doggie to mish and back again.

References

• (mission): Tony Thorne (2014) “mish”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

Anagrams

• shim, hims, SHIM, HMIs, Hims, HMIS, Shim, him's

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *miśśa < *meśśa, from Proto-Indo-European *memsa- (“meat”). Compare Armenian միս (mis), Serbo-Croatian meso, Russian мя́со (mjáso), Tocharian B mīsa, Old Prussian mensa, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz), Sanskrit मांस (māṃsá).

Pronunciation

• (Tosk, Gheg) IPA^(key): /miʃ/

Noun

mish m (plural mishra, definite mishi, definite plural mishrat)

1. flesh; meat

   mish viçi ― beef

   mish pule ― chicken

2. flesh, naked skin

Declension

Declension of mish

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mish	mishi	mishra	mishrat
accusative		mishin
dative	mishi	mishit	mishrave	mishrave
ablative			mishrash

Derived terms

• mishërohem
• mishëroj
• mishngrënës
• i mishtë
• mishtor

Further reading

• “mish”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “mish”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]
• Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 10: “caro, carne — misc”

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish messe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪʃ/

Pronoun

mish

1. First person singular emphatic personal pronoun; I, me.

   Creid mish! ― Believe me!

   Mish lhiat! ― The same here!

Related terms

• mee (non-emphatic)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Pipil mishtun (“cat”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiʃ/ [ˈmiʃ]
• Rhymes: -iʃ
• Syllabification: mish

Noun

mish m (plural mishs, feminine misha, feminine plural mishas)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala) kitten

   Synonym: michi

Usage notes

• The masculine plural form may be mishes.

Further reading

• “mish”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010