Dave, I'm curious - is "ish" a Minnesota term? The only other person I've heard use the term is my dad (a lifelong Chicagoan) who used it in exactly the same context as you did here. He sometimes modified as "ish kabish" when something was particularly distasteful.
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Date: 2009-07-27 08:34 pm (UTC)