... do my forty- and fifty-somethings see a few flakes of snow and start cancelling everything days ahead when my sixty-, seventy-, eighty-, ninety- and even hundred-and-somethings wrap up, put on their boots and get on with it? When did we get so nesh?
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School is closed -but I got to go to the Coffee Drop in at Church, then a Care Home communion - which Bob described as "taking his wife out for a morning of drinking and singing"!!
what is 'nesh'?
My point precisely!
Nesh = soft, wussy (not that I know how to spell wuss or wussy). It's a northern-ish expression I think.
Would you believe the word has its own Wikipedia entry? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesh And it sneaked into more general usage by cropping up in 'The Full Monty'
When used in the typing pool at Dibley District Council, nesh seemed particularly to describe softness/wussiness in relation to matters of temperature (i.e. someone who always suffered from the cold).
Other terms I only ever encountered in the typing pool were "having a gleg" (at something) and "sticking your sneck in" (other people's business). Whether this term is very localised to Dibley and district, or whether it was a 19th century import with workers relocating from the North East is a question beyond my etymological powers.
Thanks Andy - not come across either of those here. Maybe it is a North Dibley sub-dialect? My understanding is that there are three variations on the local accent and if you are a true Dibleyite (Dibleyonian?) you can tell if a person's ancestry was North East England, Western Scotland or indigenous.
Dibbler?
Times Cryptic Crossword this week had a clue which required the word NESH [clued as 'feeble' ] to form part of the answer!! So thanks to this blog, I could fill it in. Ta!