It's the word of the day for October 17th.

Today's word is Kaibosh, spelled K-I-B-O-S-H.

Kaibosh is a noun.

It refers to something that serves as a check or stop. It's usually used in the phrase, put the kibosh is a noun. It refers to something that serves as a check or stop. It's usually used in the

phrase put the kibosh on to mean to stop or end something or to prevent something from happening

or continuing. Here's the word used in a sentence from mashable. Maybe suggests Graham Dugoni

and other advocates. Instead of putting the kibosh on devices entirely

we need to treat modern society like a teenager on a rebellious streak rather than saying no we need to

show them support offer a gentle hand maybe even make them think it's their idea in a way

it's time for some gentle parenting.

Evidence of Kaibosh dates the word to only a few years before Charles Dickens used it in an 1836 sketch.

But despite Kaibosh being relatively young, its source is elusive.

Claims were once made that it was Yiddish, despite the

absence of a plausible Yiddish source. Another hypothesis pointed to the Irish term,

Kipwarsh, literally quaff or cap of death, explained as headgear a judge put on when pronouncing

a death sentence, or as a covering pulled over the face of a corpse when a coffin was closed.

But evidence for any metaphorical use of this phrase in Irish is lacking, and Kaibosh is not recorded in English as spoken in Ireland until decades after Dickens' use.

More recent source theories include a heraldic term for an animal's head when born with only its face fully showing,

and an Arabic word meaning whip or lash,

but as the note at our etymology explains,

no theory has sufficient evidence to back it.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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