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wesh.

Stresses or emphasizes a fact or event.

4 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

intj/wɛʃ/

  1. Stresses or emphasizes a fact or event.

    slang
    Mais c'est lui wesh!

  2. Indicates or emphasizes shock or surprise at a fact or event.

    slang
    Wesh il a un chat?

  3. Introduces a vocative.

    slang
    Wesh frérot, viens là!

  4. hello, hey, hi, yo

    slang

  5. what's up?

    slang

  6. A filler word.

    slang
Where this word comes from

Many etymologies have been proposed. The leading theories find its roots in Maghrebi Arabic varieties, primarily from Moroccan Arabic واش (wāš, an interrogative particle), or through ellipsis of Algerian Arabic واش راك (wāš rāk, “what's up?”); in Moroccan Arabic, interrogatives شنو (šnu) and آش (ʔāš) are used to say “what” instead. Certain speakers and online dictionaries like L'internaute propose wesh as a “disformation” of French ouais, though this theory is much less popular.

noun/wɛʃ/

  1. Someone tending to use French slang very frequently.

    especially · masculine · reduplication · slang
    J’ai déjà discuté avec des weshs dans les TEC...c'est carrément un rôle, leur weshitude. Et quel autre but aurait un tel rôle que celui de chopper [les femmes]? Et ça marche. Donc en fait, ils sont malins, faut pas s'en moquer!
Where this word comes from

Many etymologies have been proposed. The leading theories find its roots in Maghrebi Arabic varieties, primarily from Moroccan Arabic واش (wāš, an interrogative particle), or through ellipsis of Algerian Arabic واش راك (wāš rāk, “what's up?”); in Moroccan Arabic, interrogatives شنو (šnu) and آش (ʔāš) are used to say “what” instead. Certain speakers and online dictionaries like L'internaute propose wesh as a “disformation” of French ouais, though this theory is much less popular.

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