Why are people looking up cosh?
Cosh had a rare moment atop our lookups on February 4th, 2019, following the word’s appearance in an interview with actor Liam Neeson.
2019年2月4日，在对演员连姆·尼森(Liam Neeson)的采访后，Cosh这个词罕见地出现在了我们的搜索结果榜首。
Yet here in the rigid, conveyor-belt atmosphere of the celebrity junket, the 66-year-old star of Taken is about to recount a disturbing incident from his past, a confession that he’s never made before. It will involve how he learnt about the rape of someone close to him many years ago, how he roamed the streets for a week afterwards carrying with him a cosh and brutal, racist thoughts, and how this taught him that violence and revenge do not work.
— Clémence Michallon, The Independent (London, Eng.), 4 Feb. 2019
然而，在电影推介会(Press junket)这种僵硬的传送带氛围中，这位66岁的明星将要讲述他过去的令人不安的事件，这是他以前从未做过的忏悔。这关系到多年前他如何了解到他的一位好友被强奸的事件，事后他如何带着短棒以及满腔残暴又充满种族歧视的想法在街上晃荡（希望杀死一个黑人以发泄，因其好友被黑人强奸），以及这件事如何让他懂得暴力和报复解决不了问题。
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What does cosh mean?
We define cosh as both noun (“a weighted weapon similar to a blackjack”) and verb (“to strike or assault with or as if with a cosh”). Both parts of speech are chiefly British in use, although not uncommon in other varieties of English.
cosh既可用作名词(“类似于blackjack（包革金属棍棒）的加重武器”)，也可用作动词(“用cosh击打”)。这两个用法都主要在英式英语中使用，当然在其他英语变体中也并不少见。
Where does cosh come from?
The origins of cosh are somewhat obscure. Its earliest use comes in the middle of the 19th century, and it possibly comes from the Romany kaš (or kašt), meaning “stick, piece of wood.”
cosh的起源还不太清楚。最早使用来自于19世纪中叶,它可能来自于吉普赛语kaš(或kašt),意思是“棒,木头”。
Citations
It is a rare day in London when the newspapers do not carry stories of people not only being robber but beaten viciously with “a cosh” of one kind or another.
—Calgary Herald (Alberta, Can.), 15 Mar. 1950
在伦敦，很少有一天报纸上不报道人们抢劫，或者被这样或那样的“棍棒”毒打的故事。
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