mish

Simple spoken contraction of mission, missionary.

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mish (countable and uncountable, plural mishes)

1. (British, slang, countable) A mission or task.
   • 2015, Marlee Jane Ward, Welcome to Orphancorp:

     I haven't been on a mish in ages. I need some excitement. Do you get mad toey and hungry afterwards?

2. (slang, uncountable) Missionary (sex position).
   • 1999, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Serpents Tail:

     The sex became mechanical sex a lot of the time, formula porn: 'blow, dog, mish, pop!' blow-job, then doggy style, then missionary position, followed by pop shot', as Jeremy Sullivan explains. And then amateur came along.

   • 2013, King Starr, The Hobbyist, Vagabondage Press LLC, page 123:

     Highlight: the massive testicular licking as they 69ed, and I traded doggie to mish and back again.

• (mission): Tony Thorne (2014) “mish”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

• shim, hims, SHIM, HMIs, Hims, HMIS, Shim, him's

From Proto-Albanian *miśśa < *meśśa, from Proto-Indo-European *memsa- (“meat”). Compare Armenian միս (mis), Serbo-Croatian meso, Russian мя́со (mjáso), Tocharian B mīsa, Old Prussian mensa, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz), Sanskrit मांस (māṃsá).^[1]

• (Tosk, Gheg) IPA^(key): /miʃ/

mish m (plural mishra, definite mishi, definite plural mishrat)

1. flesh; meat

   mish viçi ― beef

   mish pule ― chicken

2. flesh, naked skin

• “mish”, 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]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “mish”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]
• Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 10: “caro, carne — misc”

From Old Irish messe.

• IPA^(key): /miʃ/

mish

1. First person singular emphatic personal pronoun; I, me.

   Creid mish! ― Believe me!

   Mish lhiat! ― The same here!

• mee (non-emphatic)

Borrowed from Pipil mishtun (“cat”), of onomatopoeic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiʃ/ [ˈmiʃ]
• Rhymes: -iʃ
• Syllabification: mish

mish m (plural mishs, feminine misha, feminine plural mishas)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala) kitten

   Synonym: michi

• The masculine plural form may be mishes.

• “mish”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010