eddish

• edish, edige, eatage, earsh.

Uncertain; but probably from Middle English eddish (found often in compounds: e.g. eddish-hen (“eddish-hen, quail”)), ultimately from Old English edisc (“an eddish or aftermath; pasture; enclosed pasture, park”), equivalent to ed- +‎ -ish.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɪʃ/

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eddish (countable and uncountable, plural eddishes)

1. An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been mowed; also, a field of such growth.

   Synonyms: aftergrass, aftermath, fog

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 1”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     The hay was gathered from the fields, and the cattle turned onto the eddish.

• edgrow, edgrowth

• dished