treesh

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• IPA^(key): /tɹiːʃ/

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• Rhymes: -iːʃ

treesh (plural treeshes)

1. (New York, African-American Vernacular slang) A promiscuous woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

treesh

1. Alternative form of threesh
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;

     Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106