nish

From German nichts (“nothing”) or possibly Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”). Originally borrowed from Polari.

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

nish

1. (UK, slang) nothing.
   • 1998 March 4, Janie Lawrence, quoting Ian Dury, “The Dury's Out”, in The Independent‎:

     If you like the director you do it for nish, so Marcus Thompson got us all to do it for nothing.

   • 2017, Dreda Say Mitchell, Blood Mother: Flesh and Blood Trilogy Book Two, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     I've got nish to say to you. You can save your breath.

   • 2017 September 20, BBC Backstage Music Pass‎, Liam Gallagher (actor):

     These fucking little smart arses download fucking tunes for nish.

• Hins, Shin, hins, his'n, hisn, shin, sinh

From Old Irish indossa (cognate with Irish anois, Scottish Gaelic a-nis).

nish

1. now

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “indossa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language