Meanings
- datedslanguncountablelifestyleA self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...
1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 301 more example
I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.
1996 March, R. Graeme Cameron, “Editorial”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, volume 3, number 1 (whole number 5), page 2 - datedslanguncountablelifestyleA reference to the specific issue of a periodical currently under discussion.
Only story I really enjoyed in thish was THE VANISHER.
1955 Spring, Pat Scott, “Pat Me Gently [letter]”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 10, page 921 more example
Thish of TWS was really a shock to me, and I'm not pulling any punches!
1953 August, D. Clarkson, “[letter]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 135
Origin
Blend of this + ish (“issue”).
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