eddish

• edish, edige, eatage

Origin 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/

eddish (countable and uncountable, plural eddishes)

1. An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth.
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1

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

• edgrow, edgrowth

• dished