coshes

coshes

1. plural of cosh

• choses

• coshe, cosh

From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”). This is a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

• IPA^(key): /kɔːʃs/, /kɔːʃ/

coshes

1. conscience
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:

     Ha-ho! be mee coshes, th'ast ee-pait it, co Joane;

     Hey-ho! by my conscience, you have paid it, quoth John;

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32