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発音

• IPA: /kɒʃ/
• 韻: -ɒʃ

名詞

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 […]

派生語

動詞

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.

参考

• bludgeon

語源 2

形容詞

cosh (comparative more cosh, superlative most cosh)

1. (Scotland) cozy; snug

アナグラム

• CHOs, COHs, Chos, OHCs, SOHC, Sohc

語源 3

名詞

cosh (uncountable)

1. hyperbolic cosine