Sekirov Dictionary

nesh

/nɛʃ/

adjective 3
verb 2
forms 5

adjective3

(dialect, UK) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
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(dialect, UK) Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
- And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was. — 1886
(dialect, UK) Soft; friable; crumbly.

verb2

To make soft, tender, or weak.
(dialect, Northern-England) To act timidly.

forms

neshed · neshing · neshes · nesher · neshest

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