Dictionary entry
neesh • excl • oh! [used by men] • Variants neeshaa neee
Lexicon record # 2179 | Source reference(s): R230 YLCB16 YLCB29
Sentence examples (5)
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Neesh k'e-met'eek'!
Your ass! (man's word, swearing. I don't believe it!)
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)
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Neesh!
Oh, you're lying! (a man says) — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)
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Neesh, neekee ha'p'ehl!
Goodness sakes, I just forgot! (man) — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)
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Neeshaa kwelokw keech pelep'.
Look, there's a fight started.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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'O neee'no'w 'ue-'wes. Neesh! Tue' kome neskweyowok'.
He looked at himself. Alas! He was sick.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)