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 Kaibosh 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 Kaipwarsh.
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's use.