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Usenet Posted 23 years ago
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A person sensitive to cold

Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions.

Could you possibly help me with this one:
Is there a word in English to denote someone who is especially sensitive to cold (e.g., is the first to feel cold when the temperature is falling, feels comfortable wearing more clothes than others wear, requires thicker blankets at night etc.)?
Thank you beforehand,
Sergei Koval
  

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[nq:1]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions. Could you possibly help me with this one: Is there ... )?

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  • [nq:1]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions.
  • Could you possibly help me with this one: Is there ...
  • )?
  • Thank you beforehand, Sergei Koval[/nq] "Nesh".
  • I believe this may be localized to northern England.
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[nq:1]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions. Could you possibly help me with this one: Is there ... falling, feels comfortable wearing more clothes than others wear, requires thicker blankets at night etc.)? Thank you beforehand, Sergei Koval[/nq]
"Nesh".
I believe this may be localized to northern England.

Matti
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[nq:2]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions. ... thicker blankets at night etc.)? Thank you beforehand, Sergei Koval[/nq]
[nq:1]"Nesh". I believe this may be localized to northern England.[/nq]
In my family, it's "Aunt Sonja."
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[nq:2]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions. ... thicker blankets at night etc.)? Thank you beforehand, Sergei Koval[/nq]
[nq:1]"Nesh". I believe this may be localized to northern England.[/nq]
"Nesh" was the dialectal word in Shropshire c.1948.

Alan Jones
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[nq:2]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions. ... thicker blankets at night etc.)? Thank you beforehand, Sergei Koval[/nq]
[nq:1]"Nesh". I believe this may be localized to northern England.[/nq]
No, Midlands as well.
m.
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[nq:2]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions. ... thicker blankets at night etc.)? Thank you beforehand, Sergei Koval[/nq]
[nq:1]"Nesh". I believe this may be localized to northern England.[/nq]
LOL I immediately thought "nesh", and bingo, there was your reply!

btw, can we have a moratorium on the phrase "thank you in advance" and its many variants?
Adrian
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[nq:1]btw, can we have a moratorium on the phrase "thank you in advance" and its many variants?[/nq]
This issue arises from time to time, but I think you'll find the answer is invariably "no, we can't"..

Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 21 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)
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[nq:2]Is there a word in English to denote someone who is especially sensitive to cold[/nq]
[nq:1]"Nesh". I believe this may be localized to northern England.[/nq]
COD10 says that the (dialect) word "nesh" means weak or feeble.

Martin Ambuhl
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[nq:1]Thanks a lot to all who answered my previous questions. Could you possibly help me with this one: Is there ... cold when the temperature is falling, feels comfortable wearing more clothes than others wear, requires thicker blankets at night etc.)?[/nq]
"Thin-blooded" is the term I would use.

Ray Heindl
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[nq:1]COD10 says that the (dialect) word "nesh" means weak or feeble.[/nq]
I hesitate to say that COD10 is wrong; maybe there is some part of England where "nesh" means weak or feeble, but that is not what the word means in any place I've lived.
Fran
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[nq:1]Is there a word in English to denote someone who is especially sensitiveto cold (e.g., is the first to feel cold when the temperature is falling,feels comfortable wearing more clothes than others wear, requires thickerblankets at night etc.)?[/nq]
Soft (adjective)
Softie or softy (noun)
Delicate (adjective)
A delicate flower (noun, metaphorical)
Richard Chambers Leeds UK.
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