yiddish
Noun
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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 (synset 106963829)associated with:- schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
- 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
- schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
- tsuris - (Yiddish) aggravating trouble
- 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
- shmooze - (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk
- kvetch - (Yiddish) a nagging complaint
- megillah - (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account
- 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)
- schmear, schmeer, shmear - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
- 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
- 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
- schemozzle, shemozzle - (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess
- pareve, parve - containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism
- meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh, meshuggener - senseless; crazy
domain member usage:is a type of: german, german language, high german - the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic
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