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I haven't heard this word for a long time. Wow and BYB used it a year ago, but it was not defined. For discussion see: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/kibosh.htm
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My husband uses kibosh frequently, but pronounces it KYE-bosh. (He grew up in Pennsylvania and New York states).
I grew up in California and have always heard it pronounced kah-BOSH. To squelch or put a curse on something?
Unexpected thundershowers put the kibosh on our plans to swim the lake.
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I've always heard it as 'kyebosh'. Dr Bill's link to Quinion has some interesting history and speculation. Apparently the word was first used here in London and appears in a work by Dickens.
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M-W puts the kibosh on both the Yiddish and Irish notions of derivation here: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
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did someone put the kibosh on posting down here?
I've always said KYE-bosh, too...
formerly known as etaoin...
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> posting down here
At least the air's cleaner with no obvious iggrification ~ there's no-one putting the kibosh on every thread in sight!
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> At least the air's cleaner with no obvious iggrification
'twas my very thought...
<smile>
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Yeah, kinda nice down here below the fold...
I've heard both kah-BOSH and KYE-bosh. Grew up and still live in Ohio.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. Le Guin, author (1929- )
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New York City here, as least formative-years-wise. (Upper Bronx, at that.) Definitely KYE-bosh.
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