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#106392 - 06/24/03 10:22 PM kibosh
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Posts: 13,858 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
#106393 - 06/25/03 03:47 AM Re: kibosh
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Oregon, USA 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.
#106394 - 06/25/03 07:33 AM Re: kibosh
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UK 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.
#106395 - 05/28/04 02:35 PM Re: kibosh
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this too shall pass M-W puts the kibosh on both the Yiddish and Irish notions of derivation here: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
#106396 - 07/14/05 01:40 AM Re: kibosh
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Vermont did someone put the kibosh on posting down here?
I've always said KYE-bosh, too...
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#106397 - 07/16/05 09:38 PM Re: kibosh
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Posts: 4,757 > 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!
#106398 - 07/16/05 10:17 PM Re: iggrification
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lower upstate New York ha, mav! GMTA. :-x
#106399 - 07/16/05 10:56 PM Re: kibosh
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Vermont > At least the air's cleaner with no obvious iggrification
'twas my very thought...
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#106400 - 07/22/05 03:56 PM Re: kibosh
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Ohio Yeah, kinda nice down here below the fold...
I've heard both kah-BOSH and KYE-bosh. Grew up and still live in Ohio.
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#106401 - 08/15/05 09:12 PM Re: kibosh
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Worcester, MA New York City here, as least formative-years-wise. (Upper Bronx, at that.) Definitely KYE-bosh.
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