sesh

English

Etymology

Clipping of session.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʃ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

sesh (plural seshes)

1. (colloquial) A session.
   1. (colloquial) A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
      • 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."

      • 2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (21:47 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[1], season 5, episode 4, spoken by Evie Russell (Vanessa Bayer):

        “Thank you in advance for respecting my family's privacy-- don't touch me-- while we deal with this isolated incident in which my husband flashed and mooned the beautiful voters of Staten Island after a poorly-timed masturbation sesh.”

   2. (colloquial) An informal social get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.
      • 2007 April 11, Dave Driscoll, “Get Off the Bus Tour: Update #2”, in Transworld Snowboarding Magazine‎^[2], archived from the original on 31 October 2007:

        Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down.

      • 2002, (Usenet):

        Halo sesh

      • 2003, (Usenet):

        Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington. Wore my spring suit.

   3. (UK, Ireland, informal) A period of sustained social drinking or recreational drug taking.
      • 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 […]

   4. (Australia, Canada, US, informal) A period of sustained cannabis smoking.

Derived terms

• seshy

Verb

sesh (third-person singular simple present seshes, present participle seshing, simple past and past participle seshed)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To take part in a period of sustained cannabis smoking.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Addition Series 1993
• Eric Partridge (2005) “sesh”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →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

• SHEs, she's, Hess, EHSs, shes

Ladino

Alternative forms

• sej

Etymology

From Old Spanish seis or seys (“six”), possibly influenced by Hebrew שֵׁשׁ (“six”).

Numeral

sesh (Hebrew spelling סיש)

1. six

Welsh

Etymology

From English sesh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʃ/

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