nesh

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make soft, tender, or weak. transitive
  2. To act timidly. Northern-England,dialectal,intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding. UK,dialectal
    — 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
  2. Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc. UK,dialectal
    — And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.
  3. Soft; friable; crumbly. UK,dialectal

词形变化

nesher comparative neshest superlative nish alternative,English,Newfoundland neshes present,singular,third-person neshing participle,present neshed participle,past neshed past

词汇关系

衍生词
neshen neshly neshness

词源

词源 1
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”).
Cognate 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.
词源 2
From Middle English neschen, from Old English hnesċan, hnesċian (“to make soft, soften; become soft, give way, waver”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwōn (“to make soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *knēs-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Old High German nascōn ("to nibble at, parasitise, squander"; > German naschen (“to nibble, pinch”)). Doublet of nosh.
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