# sesh
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of session.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛʃ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛʃ

### Noun

sesh (plural seshes)
* (colloquial) A session.
** (colloquial) A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
*** July 18, 1987, Financial Times, page 6:'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week.
*** 2005, Bruce Pegg, Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry, Routledge, page 51:"There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo."
*** 2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (21:47 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Evie Russell (Vanessa Bayer):“Thank you in advance for respecting my family's privacy-- don't touch me-- while we deal with this isolated incident in which my husband flashed and mooned the beautiful voters of Staten Island after a poorly-timed masturbation sesh.”
** (colloquial) An informal social get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.
*** 2007 April 11, Dave Driscoll, “Get Off the Bus Tour: Update #2”, in Transworld Snowboarding Magazine‎, archived from the original on 31 October 2007:Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down.
*** 2002, (Usenet):Halo sesh
*** 2003, (Usenet):Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington. Wore my spring suit.
** (UK, Ireland, informal) A period of sustained social drinking or recreational drug taking.
*** 1944, George Netherwood, Desert Squadron, Cairo: R. Schindler, page 119:Empty lager bottles […] signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh.
*** 1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 39:Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox […]
** (Australia, Canada, US, informal) A period of sustained cannabis smoking.

#### Derived terms

* seshy

### Verb

sesh (third-person singular simple present seshes, present participle seshing, simple past and past participle seshed)
* (colloquial, intransitive) To take part in a period of sustained cannabis smoking.

### References

* Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Addition Series 1993
* Eric Partridge (2005) “sesh”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1699.
* Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2006, Jonathon Green, Published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 1252
* The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Tony Thorne, 1990, Published by Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 448.

### Anagrams

* SHEs, she's, Hess, EHSs, shes

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* sej

### Etymology

From Old Spanish seis or seys (“six”), possibly influenced by Hebrew שֵׁשׁ (“six”).

### Numeral

sesh (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סיש)
* six

## Welsh
### Etymology

From English sesh.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛʃ/

### Noun

sesh f (plural seshys, not mutable)
* (colloquial) sesh, session (period of time engaged in some group activity)
    Synonym: sesiwn
* (colloquial) sesh (period of sustained social drinking)

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sesh”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies