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thish en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of this + ish (“issue”).

Meanings

  1. (dated, slang, uncountable) A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
    • 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:
    • 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 30:
  2. (dated, slang, uncountable) A 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 92:
    • 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: