yiddish
IPA: jˈɪdɪʃ
Root Word: Yiddish
noun
- A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
- (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
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Examples of "yiddish" in Sentences
- I get to explain all the comics jokes and translate the yiddish.
- the Jewish side of my family; there are wonderful terms of abuse in yiddish.
- It’s usually said “America gonif!” in yiddish (literally: America, that thief!) …
- You are assuming a goyim like me knows enough yiddish to know what goyim means ….
- For the rest of us, though, you’d need a degree in yiddish to tell the difference.
- Yes, people can imitate all sorts of instruments and evoke a bass with "yiddish-bow-dip."
- Baking S - The same little bits from rendered chicken fat are called "gribenes" in yiddish.
- Robbit no you are not slow but the words toches lecker is an expression to describe one that licks backsides to put it politely-it is actually yiddish which is a very amusing language and one that I picked up when my parents did not want the kids to know what they were saying - strangely I never listened when they spoke in English:)
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