It's the first appearance of the word in english, which is the point, you moron.
The second result is this thread?Because it's not the first appearance of the word, you moron.
I didn't say it was definitely Yiddish, it seems more likely though. The OED agrees.
If you google caidhp an bháis, the second result is this thread.
Lolzers
And "caip bháis" is pronounced "cap-voish" not "kibosh".
I read several different sources. You should try it.It's not.
That's been disproved.
Did you even read the article you plagiarised?
Where? This should be good.It's not.
That's been disproved.
Did you even read the article you plagiarised?
The second result is this thread?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=caidhp+an+bháis
Where? This should be good.
The word originated in Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. Until recently, it was believed that the first written evidence was in Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz of 1836, where he spelled it phonetically as kye-bosk (Douglas Wilson of the American Dialect Society has recently discovered that the same piece appeared in the magazine Bell’s Life in London the year before).
Now we have electronic databases of newspapers and periodicals that cover this period, slightly earlier appearances are known. It turned up in a number of London journals within a few days of each other in late 1834, following a case in a London magistrates’ court that concerned two chimney sweeps, who were convicted of having touted for business by crying their services in the streets
From the article you apparently read:
Sounds more Yiddish than anything else. I read some where recently that the African American slang word 'Dig' is meant to be derived from the Irish to understand (I'm not even going to attempt to try and spell it as I speak fuck all Irish)
I seriously, seriously doubt that. Another one that cracks me up is often trotted out line that Drogheda have a crescent moon and star of Islam on their coat of arms because some Ottoman Sultan sent over grub during the famine. Utter tosh , for a start it isn't even a Islamic crescent and star on their coat of arms. + I very much doubt some Turkish lad in the 1800's gave a fuck about what was going on Ireland , not to mind even heard of the place.
How does that disprove that kibosh has Irish origins? The first reference is from chimney sweeps the second is the same year as the Dickens piece.
The Sultan of Turkey was going to send 10,000 pounds in aid to Ireland during the Famine, but british diplomats had a hissy fit with him as it would have offended royal protocol if somebody else was seen to give more money than Victoria, so he instead gave 1,000 pounds.
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