sesh

English

Etymology

Clipping of session.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

sesh (plural seshes)

1. (colloquial) A session.
   1. (colloquial) A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
      • July 18, 1987, Financial Times, page 6:

        'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week.

      • 2005, Bruce Pegg, Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry, Routledge, page 51:

        "There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo."

   2. (colloquial) An informal social get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.
      • 2007 April 11, Dave Driscoll, “Get Off the Bus Tour: Update #2”, in Transworld Snowboarding Magazine‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 October 2007:

        Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down.

      • 2002, (Usenet):

        Halo sesh

      • 2003, (Usenet):

        Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington. Wore my spring suit.

   3. (UK, Ireland, informal) A period of sustained social drinking or recreational drug taking.
      • 1944, George Netherwood, Desert Squadron, Cairo: R. Schindler, page 119:

        Empty lager bottles […] signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh.

      • 1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 39:

        Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox […]

   4. (Australia, Canada, US, informal) A period of sustained cannabis smoking.

Derived terms

• seshy

Verb

sesh (third-person singular simple present seshes, present participle seshing, simple past and past participle seshed)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To take part in a period of sustained cannabis smoking.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Addition Series 1993
• Eric Partridge (2005) “sesh”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1699.
• Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2006, Jonathon Green, Published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 1252
• The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Tony Thorne, 1990, Published by Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 448.

Anagrams

• Hess, SHEs, she's, shes

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish seis or seys (“six”), possibly influenced by Hebrew שֵׁשׁ (“six”).

Numeral

sesh (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סיש)

1. six

Welsh

Etymology

From English sesh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʃ/

Noun

sesh f (plural seshys, not mutable)

1. (colloquial) sesh, session (period of time engaged in some group activity)

   Synonym: sesiwn

2. (colloquial) sesh (period of sustained social drinking)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sesh”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies