Meanings
nish1
- UKslangNothing.
I've got nish to say to you. You can save your breath.
2017, Dreda Say Mitchell, Blood Mother: Flesh and Blood Trilogy Book Two, Hachette UK, →ISBN2 more examples
If you like the director you do it for nish, so Marcus Thompson got us all to do it for nothing.
1998 March 4, Janie Lawrence, quoting Ian Dury, “The Dury's Out”, in The IndependentThese fucking little smart arses download fucking tunes for nish.
2017 September 20, BBC Backstage Music Pass, Liam Gallagher (actor)
Nish2
- abbreviationclippinginformaluncountableAnishinaabe English terminologyClipping of Anishinaabe/Nishnaabe.
Nish3
- alternativeAlternative form of Niš, Serbia.
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From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is detached.
1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Yiddishנישט“no, not”
- Germannichts“nothing”
- Englishnish
Borrowed from Polari, originally from German nichts (“nothing”) or Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”).
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nish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nish
“nish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nish. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nish.
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