"bish" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /bɪʃ/ Audio: En-au-bish.ogg [Australia] Forms: bishes [plural]
enPR: bǐsh Rhymes: -ɪʃ Etymology: Phonetic modification of bitch, based on black American speech. Etymology templates: {{m|en|bitch}} bitch Head templates: {{en-noun}} bish (plural bishes)
  1. (slang) A minced oath (as a term of abuse). Tags: slang Categories (topical): English minced oaths
    Sense id: en-bish-en-noun-ppX1bEnG Disambiguation of English minced oaths: 74 9 7 5 5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 14 8 10 13 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 45 15 11 7 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /bɪʃ/ Audio: En-au-bish.ogg [Australia] Forms: bishes [plural]
enPR: bǐsh Rhymes: -ɪʃ Head templates: {{en-noun}} bish (plural bishes)
  1. (British, slang, dated) A mistake. Tags: British, dated, slang
    Sense id: en-bish-en-noun-spWbqxv0 Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

IPA: /bɪʃ/ Audio: En-au-bish.ogg [Australia] Forms: bishes [plural]
enPR: bǐsh Rhymes: -ɪʃ Etymology: Clipping of bishop. Etymology templates: {{clipping of|en|bishop}} Clipping of bishop. Head templates: {{en-noun|es}} bish (plural bishes)
  1. (British, slang, humorous) A bishop (ecclesiatical) Tags: British, humorous, slang
    Sense id: en-bish-en-noun-OaQxS9vK Categories (other): British English
  2. (chess) A bishop (chess piece) Categories (topical): Chess
    Sense id: en-bish-en-noun-COIpw-EJ Topics: board-games, chess, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun [English]

IPA: /bɪʃ/ Audio: En-au-bish.ogg [Australia]
enPR: bǐsh Rhymes: -ɪʃ Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} bish (uncountable)
  1. Synonym of bikh Tags: uncountable Synonyms: bikh [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: bish bash bosh
    Sense id: en-bish-en-noun-1Hns11NF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
      "enpr": "bǐsh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bish"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.