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plural lishes
(linguistics) A hybrid variety of English having a name that is derived from a portmanteau of the name of one language and the word English, such as Chinglish (Chinese + English), Spanglish (Spanish + English), Taglish (Tagalog + English), etc. quotations examples
Similarly, little attention, if any, has been paid to the etymology of “lishes”, including questions of how the terms have been formed from their two base forms, or if the terms were originally formed in English or other languages.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 4
not comparable
(British dialect) active; nimble; lithe. examples