yiddish
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1. 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 (noun.communication)
| domain member category | : | schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | pisha paysha, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | tsuris, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) aggravating trouble (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music (noun.attribute) |
| domain member category | : | chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity (noun.attribute) |
| domain member category | : | schmegegge, shmegegge, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense (noun.communication) |
| domain member category | : | shmooze, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk (noun.communication) |
| domain member category | : | kvetch, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a nagging complaint (noun.communication) |
| domain member category | : | megillah, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account (noun.communication) |
| domain member category | : | tsoris, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) trouble and suffering (noun.feeling) |
| domain member category | : | nosh, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a snack or light meal (noun.food) |
| domain member category | : | knish, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack (noun.food) |
| domain member category | : | bagel, beigel, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust (noun.food) |
| domain member category | : | mishpachah, mishpocha, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) (noun.group) |
| domain member category | : | schmear, schmeer, shmear, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together (noun.group) |
| domain member category | : | chutzpanik, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | kibitzer, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | klutz, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | knocker, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | kvetch, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a constant complainer (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | mensch, mensh, |
| definition | : | a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | nebbech, nebbish, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | nudnick, nudnik, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | putz, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | schlemiel, shlemiel, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | schlimazel, shlimazel, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | schnook, shnook, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | schnorrer, shnorrer, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | yenta, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | yenta, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | schemozzle, shemozzle, |
| definition | : | (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess (noun.state) |
| domain member category | : | pareve, parve, |
| definition | : | containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism (adj.all) |
| domain member usage | : | shegetz, |
| definition | : | an offensive term for non-Jewish young man (noun.person) |
| domain member usage | : | shiksa, shikse, |
| definition | : | a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women (noun.person) |
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