Nesh

Quick meaning: Nesh is an adjective meaning (now UK dialectal) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.

Meaning

(now UK dialectal) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.

More Meanings

1. (now UK dialectal) Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
2. (now UK dialectal) Soft; friable; crumbly.
3. (transitive) To make soft, tender, or weak.
4. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To act timidly.

Example Sentences

No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides.

And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.

"I wouldn't have locked up Noakes and stolen a car if I'd known you couldn't pick the lock!" "Aye, exactly, you're nesh, so you needed encouragement."

haue ye no merueylle sayd the good man therof / for hit semeth wel god loueth yow / for men maye vnderstande a stone is hard of kynde /[…]/ for thou wylt not leue thy synne for no goodnes that god hath sente the / therfor thou arte more than ony stone / and neuer woldest thow be maade neysshe nor by water nor by fyre

Word Forms

• nesher
• neshest
• neshes
• neshing
• neshed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soft, weaky, cushiony, feely, mushy, squishy.

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