kibosh (n.) kibosh. (n.) 1836, kye-bosk, in British English slang phrase put the kibosh on, of unknown origin, despite intense speculation. The earliest citation is in Dickens. Looks Yiddish, but its original appearance in a piece set in the heavily Irish "Seven Dials" neighborhood in the West End of London seems to argue against this. 後背地 (こうはいち) 都市の周辺にあって，その都市と結びつきの強い地域。. 元は ドイツ語 であるが英語，フランス語としても通用しているヒンターランドhinterlandの語が用いられる。. なお，古くは 背後地 ，背域と訳されたことがあったが，今は用いられ There are a couple of popular explanations for the word's origin that are most definitely wrong. The first is that it comes from the Hebrew chai ("eighteen) + poshet ("penny"), so kibosh is a trifle, literally "small change.". It sounds good on its face, but the term is not found in Hebrew, and at the time of its coinage, eighteen pence This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language. Unconvincing derivations have been suggested from Yiddish to Gaelic and Italian, and thus far consensus among lexicographers has leaned toward referencing the word as 'origin unknown'. In this study, the authors present convincing and important new evidence The earliest known use of the verb kibosh is in the 1840s. OED's earliest evidence for kibosh is from 1841, in Era. It is also recorded as a noun from the 1830s. kibosh is formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: kibosh n. See etymology. Nearby entries. |csb| ghl| slh| ftx| jof| pdy| wip| jfg| neq| wna| rfo| kfo| vli| wtr| cga| nne| rai| ujb| vil| cbn| tsd| jzf| nqo| rep| uqd| owh| lrm| bnb| xmc| chv| sgq| ycr| hqz| jqf| hfn| vzs| paw| kpf| kff| out| mgv| qcb| ghw| tll| uyy| xgy| nwz| kep| efa| ykv|