halpish

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard +‎ zhip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɫˈpiːʃ/

Noun

halpish

1. hardship

References

• 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 44