Yid·dish (y d sh)n. The language historically of Ashkenazic Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, resulting from a fusion of elements derived principally from medieval German dialects and secondarily from Hebrew and Aramaic, various Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian. [Yiddish yidish, Jewish, Yiddish, from Middle High German jüdisch, Jewish, from jude, jüde, Jew, from Old High German judo, from Latin I  daeus; see Jew.]Yid dish adj. |
Yiddish [ˈjɪdɪʃ]
n
(Linguistics / Languages) a language spoken as a vernacular by Jews in Europe and elsewhere by Jewish emigrants, usually written in the Hebrew alphabet. Historically, it is a dialect of High German with an admixture of words of Hebrew, Romance, and Slavonic origin, developed in central and E Europe during the Middle Ages
adj
(Linguistics / Languages) in or relating to this language
[from German jüdisch, from Jude Jew]
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| Noun | 1. |  Yiddish - a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew scriptschtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?" pisha paysha - (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no shtik" tsuris - (Yiddish) aggravating trouble; "the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to" schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense German language, High German, German - the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic shmooze - (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk kvetch - (Yiddish) a nagging complaint megillah - (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account; "he insisted on giving us the whole megillah" tsoris - (Yiddish) trouble and suffering nosh - (Yiddish) a snack or light meal knish - (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack mishpachah, mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha" schmear, schmeer, shmear - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together; "he bought the whole schmeer" chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke - (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman chutzpanik - (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff - (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) kibitzer - (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others klutz - (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt knocker - (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person kvetch - (Yiddish) a constant complainer meshuggeneh, meshuggener - (Yiddish) a crazy fool putz - (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot schlimazel, shlimazel - (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything schnook, shnook - (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised; "don't be such an apologetic shnook" shegetz - an offensive term for non-Jewish young man; "why does she like all those shkotzim?" yenta - (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal |
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