hashish
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation
- IPA: /həˈʃiːʃ/, /hæˈʃiːʃ/, /ˈhæʃɪʃ/
hashish (uncountable)
- The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 44:
- Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.
- 1876: Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
- You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 44:
- A cannabis extract.
- (slang) Marijuana generally.
- See also Thesaurus:marijuana
- French: haschich, haschisch, hachisch, hachich
- German: Haschisch, Hasch
- Portuguese: haxixe
- Russian: гаши́ш
- Spanish: hachís
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003