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nouna dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew scripttype of:
Definition that contains yiddish
- singer United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991)
- schmuck (Yiddish) a jerk
- bagel (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
- klutz (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt
- putz (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot
- knocker (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person
- schmear (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
- shtick (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
- shtick (Yiddish) a little; a piece
- nosh (Yiddish) a snack or light meal