# ish
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʃ

### Etymology 1

From is.

#### Verb

ish
* Pronunciation spelling of is.

### Etymology 2

Back-formation from -ish.

#### Adverb

ish (not comparable)
* (colloquial) somewhat, reasonably, fairly
    The exam went well... mostly... ish.
    "Was the film any good?" – "Ish."
** 26 May 2012, Jason VandenBerghe, “The Five Domains of Play”, Gotland Game Conference, Uppsala University:
    This is where I started. Does Hermione like Dark Souls? Ish.
* (colloquial) about, approximately
** 1974, Kingsley Amis, Ending up, page 11:'With luck, about twelve.' 'Ah,' said Bernard. 'Twelve-thirty. Ish.'
** 2007, Marne Davis Kellogg, Friends in High Places, page 283:How old are you? Fifty-ish?" / "Ish." / The color flared in her cheeks but she didn't look as though she were going to shoot me.
** 2021 May, “Bogey”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name): (episode 38 of Manifest)
    Eagen: "Don't blame Little House on the Prairie. I was very charming." Angelina: "Did you lie about being an orphan too?" Eagen: "Ish."

##### Usage notes

* Like the suffix, the adverb is used only after the adjective it modifies, and never before.

##### Synonyms

* (somewhat): fairly, rather, somewhat
* (approximately): about, almost, around, close to, loosely, near, nearly, roughly, round about

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Pitman ess and eff, which it resembles phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ish.

#### Noun

ish (plural ishes)
* The letter which stands for the sh sound /ʃ/ in Pitman shorthand.

##### Related terms

* esh, the IPA letter for the same sound
* zhee

### Etymology 4

Phonetic spelling of the clipping of issue.

#### Noun

ish (plural ishes)
* (dated, fandom slang) An instalment of a periodical; an issue.
** 1939 August 5, "Bob" Tucker, Le Zombie‎, number 10, page 3:"A LITTLE UNPLEASANTNESS" DEPT: Fantasy Digest says in it's latest ish: Quote: Some unpleasantness was caused when Don Wollheim and his brother Futurians were not allowed in the Convention Hall. Unquote.
** 1961 July, George H. Scithers, Amra, volume 2, number 16, page 2:Next ish: a guide to who is who of the Howard heroes in the centerspread.
** 1967 June, Drake Maynard, If, volume 17, number 6, page 160:My sincerest apologies to Brother Ron Smith in the December ish.

##### Derived terms

* annish
* thish

### Etymology 5
#### Interjection

ish (comparative more ish, superlative most ish)
* (informal, Canada, US, regional) ick, yuck

##### Related terms

* ishy

##### See also

* eesh

### Etymology 6

From earlier isht, a minced oath metathetic alteration of shit.

#### Noun

ish (uncountable)
* (euphemistic) Shit (in various senses).
** 2010, Jill Murray, Break On Through, page 15:Anyone, really, but seriously, you'd think that people whose very passion depends on their lungs would want to cut that ish out
** 2012, Dipal Parikh, Walking with Krishna: Based on True Life Events, page 154:I owe you a lot Dipal, so put that ish away.
** 2013, Ivy McQuain, Get Your Head Out of the Clouds, This Is Business, page 25:Now, it's time to get your ish together.
** 2015, Ni-Ni Simone, Amir Abrams, Lights, Love & Lip Gloss, page 51:I passed on that craziness. I wasn't messing with that ish.

### References

* (Periodical): Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “ish”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 101–102.
* (Periodical): Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2025), “ish n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

### Anagrams

* His, Hsi, IHS, Shi, his, shi

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* ush

### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Interjection

ish
* used to chase chicken away

### Further reading

* “ish”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980

## Scots
### Noun

ish
* issue; liberty of going out