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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Kibosh Kibosh, V., and as n in put the kibosh on, has as its main sense 'to ruin,
spoil'. The latest OED Sup., 1976, offers no explanation for the word's derivation;
but the very oddity and exotic feel of it have prompted several etymologies, the ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... our heads together. put the kibosh on Restrain or check something, as in The
rain put the kibosh on our beach party, or The boss put the kibosh on the whole
project. The word kibosh has been used in English since the first half of the
1800s, ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words
Ispeak informally; chat: she kibitzed with friends. DERIVATIVES: kib-itz-er n. Ki-
bOSh |ko'baSH; 'ki,baSH| - n. (in phrase put the kibosh on) put an end to; dispose
of decisively: he put the kibosh on the deal. kin-dred |'kindrid| - n. [treated as pl.] ...
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The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations:
The Complete ...
... note that in Canada one often hears KAHR-kee, like car key (the word was
formerly sometimes spelled karkee). kibosh KY-bahsh (recommended). Now less
often, ki-BAHSH. The expression to put the kibosh on (something) — meaning ...
Charles Harrington Elster,
2006
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The Right Word in
the Right Place at
the Right Time: Wit and ...
And the meaning of to put the kibosh on is widely understood: “to forbid, with
unmistakable conclusiveness.” But what's a kibosh? Nobody knows. It has been
attributed to Yiddish and Gaelic, but with no citation. H. L. Mencken thought it was
an ...
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Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into
the World of Weird and ...
Thus, to put the kibosh on someone is declare them as good as dead. The Irish
fairy tale collector Padraic Colum explains the word in a letter to etymologist and
dictionary maker Charles Earle Funk: “Kibosh, I believe means the 'cap of death'
...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
noun informal 1 put the kibosh on his boss put the kibosh on the deal: put a stop
to, check, curb, stop, halt, bring to an end, put an end to, nip in the bud, quash,
block, cancel, scotch, thwart, frustrate, prevent, quell, suppress; informal squelch,
...
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
14, 1997 kibosh; kybosh noun 1 an end, a finish UK, 1836 Almost always heard
in the context of 'put the kibosh on' or 'to'. • The mob was back at the stockyards
again, so that put the kybosh on getting Out this morning — Jon Cleary, The Long
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Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor,
2006
gMMt#R*M*A*H - ) to key up sin i ffi^fcli i f£±Mt(We were all keyed up for the
football match. under lock and key ML LOCK kibe to gall/ tread on someone's
kibes ffl'SS K wfl&ttf ; ®s»AMffi*[kibeji« kibosh * to put the kibosh on 1. H*BS[ > (
Sib (His ...
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Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-linguistic Model of ...
Consequently, the semantic structure of these idioms becomes non-transparent: (
110) put the kibosh on NP, put the mockers on NP, go for broke, come a cropper
Another subset of spf-idioms reflects syntactic idiosyncracies (111). Note that ...
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