Yid·dish

(yĭd′ĭsh)

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 Iūdaeus; see Jew.]

Yid′dish adj.

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Yiddish

(ˈjɪdɪʃ)

(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

(Languages) in or relating to this language

[C19: from German jüdisch, from Jude Jew]

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Yid•dish

(ˈyɪd ɪʃ)

n.

1. a language of central and E European Jews and their descendants elsewhere: based on Rhenish dialects of Middle High German with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and Aramaic, the Slavic languages, and other sources, and written in the Hebrew alphabet.

adj.

2. of or pertaining to Yiddish.

[1885–90]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

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 script

schtick, 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

meshugaas, mishegaas, mishegoss - (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity

schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us laugh"

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"

chachka, tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke - (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket

schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz - (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah - (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity

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

bagel, beigel - (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

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

mensch, mensh - a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics

meshuggeneh, meshuggener - (Yiddish) a crazy fool

nebbech, nebbish - (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton

nudnick, nudnik - (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest

putz - (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot

schlemiel, shlemiel - (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler

schlep, schlepper, shlep, shlepper - (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person

schlimazel, shlimazel - (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything

schmo, schmuck, shmo, shmuck - (Yiddish) a jerk

schnook, shnook - (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised; "don't be such an apologetic shnook"

schnorrer, shnorrer - (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others

yenta - (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal

yenta - (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant

schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven"

schemozzle, shemozzle - (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess

Translations

jidiš

jiddisch

yiddishyidiche

jiddischjiddisk

Idiş

Jiddisch

Yiddish

[ˈjɪdɪʃ]

A. ADJ → judío

B. N (Ling) → yíd(d)ish m, judeo-alemán m

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Yiddish

[ˈjɪdɪʃ]

n (= language) → yiddish m

adj → yiddish inv

Yiddish

adj → jiddisch

n (Ling) → Jiddisch nt

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Yiddish

[ˈjɪdɪʃ] adj & n → yiddish (m) inv