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Nish

name, noun, pron, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Niš, Serbia. alt-of, alternative

    "From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is detached."

Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of Anishinaabe/Nishnaabe. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
Pronoun
  1. 1
    nothing. UK, slang

    "If you like the director you do it for nish, so Marcus Thompson got us all to do it for nothing."

Etymology

From German nichts (“nothing”) or possibly Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”). Originally borrowed from Polari.

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