Associations to the word «Gish»

Wiktionary

GISH, noun. (role-playing games) A magician, or character that is skilled in both physical combat and the use of magic. Most gish characters use their magical abilities to increase their own personal combat abilities (known as "buffing").
GISH, noun. (slang) An outsider.
GISH GALLOP, noun. A rhetorical technique in which a dishonest speaker lists a string of falsehoods or misleading items so that their opponent will be unable to counter each one and still be able to make their own counterpoints

Dictionary definition

GISH, noun. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne