"nesh" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "neshen"
    },
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      "word": "neshness"
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      "expansion": "Middle English nesh",
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        "3": "hnesċe"
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      "expansion": "Old English hnesċe",
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        "3": "*hnaskwī"
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwī",
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        "t": "soft, tender"
      },
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      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *knēs-",
      "name": "der"
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      },
      "expansion": "Scots nesch",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "nesch"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch nesch",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌷𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌵𐌿𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "soft, tender, delicate"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌵𐌿𐍃 (hnasqus, “soft, tender, delicate”)",
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English nesh, nesch, nesche, from Old English hnesċe, hnysċe, næsċe (“soft, tender, mild; weak, delicate; slack, negligent; effeminate, wanton”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwī, from Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“soft, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *knēs-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”).\nCognate with Scots nesch, nesh (“soft, tender, yielding easily to pressure, sensitive”), Dutch nesch, nes (“wet, moist”), Gothic 𐌷𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌵𐌿𐍃 (hnasqus, “soft, tender, delicate”). Compare also nask, nasky, nasty.",
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    {
      "form": "nesher",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "neshest",
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        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "_dis": "34 33 33",
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        {
          "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:",
          "text": "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",
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        "Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding."
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          "Soft",
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          "tender",
          "tender"
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          "sensitive",
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          "yielding",
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        "(now UK dialectal) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding."
      ],
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        "dialectal"
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        {
          "ref": "1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “Chapter 4”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc."
      ],
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        [
          "Delicate",
          "delicate"
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        [
          "weak",
          "weak"
        ],
        [
          "poor-spirited",
          "poor-spirited"
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          "susceptible",
          "susceptible"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now UK dialectal) Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc."
      ],
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        "UK",
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      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "word": "fredolic"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "frileux"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "frileuse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "word": "kälteempfindlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "friorento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "word": "friguros"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "néžnyj",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "не́жный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "word": "dis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "word": "friolento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 90 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
          "word": "friolero"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Soft; friable; crumbly."
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          "friable",
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          "crumbly",
          "crumbly"
        ]
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        "(now UK dialectal) Soft; friable; crumbly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/nɛʃ/"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "English",
        "Newfoundland"
      ],
      "word": "nish"
    }
  ],
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}

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        "To make soft, tender, or weak."
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        "(transitive) To make soft, tender, or weak."
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        "To act timidly."
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        "(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To act timidly."
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        "3": "",
        "4": "soft, tender, delicate"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English nesh, nesch, nesche, from Old English hnesċe, hnysċe, næsċe (“soft, tender, mild; weak, delicate; slack, negligent; effeminate, wanton”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwī, from Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“soft, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *knēs-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”).\nCognate with Scots nesch, nesh (“soft, tender, yielding easily to pressure, sensitive”), Dutch nesch, nes (“wet, moist”), Gothic 𐌷𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌵𐌿𐍃 (hnasqus, “soft, tender, delicate”). Compare also nask, nasky, nasty.",
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          "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:",
          "text": "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",
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        "(now UK dialectal) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding."
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          "text": "And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.",
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        "(now UK dialectal) Soft; friable; crumbly."
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
      "word": "fredolic"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "frileux"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "frileuse"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
      "word": "kälteempfindlich"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
      "word": "friguros"
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      "word": "не́жный"
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      "code": "gd",
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      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
      "word": "dis"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susc. to cold",
      "word": "friolento"
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      "code": "es",
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        "To act timidly."
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