cosh

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Symbol

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cosh

  1. (trigonometry) The hyperbolic function hyperbolic cosine.

Usage notes

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The symbol cosh is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol ch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.

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English

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Etymology 1

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Probably from Romani košter (stick).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cosh (plural coshes)

  1. A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.
  2. A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
  3. (UK, education, slang, dated) The cane.
    • 1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The lore and language of schoolchildren, page 374:
      There is no need here to digress on the advantages or otherwise of using a 'cosh' in schools []
    • 2019, John Loveday, The Boy from Rod Alley, page 115:
      Often, he walked around the room with the cosh in his hand, taking slashes at legs that happened to stray sideways []
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Verb

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cosh (third-person singular simple present coshes, present participle coshing, simple past and past participle coshed)

  1. (transitive) To strike with a weapon of this kind.

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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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cosh (comparative more cosh, superlative most cosh)

  1. (Scotland) cosy; snug

Anagrams

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Manx

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Noun

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cosh

  1. (obsolete, except for set phrases) dative singular of cass
    ry-choshon foot
    fo choshunderfoot

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cosh chosh gosh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Narragansett

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Noun

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còsh

  1. possessed form of osh: your father

Further reading

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Yola

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Noun

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cosh

  1. Alternative form of coshes (conscience)
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 10-11:
      az Irishmen, an az dwellerès na cosh an loyale o' Baronie Forthe,
      as Irishmen, and as inhabitants, faithful and loyal, of the Barony Forth,

References

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  • 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 116