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  • verb Present participle of shvitz.

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Examples

  • For the moment, I ask your staff, who think that New York is the hometown of all 350 million Americans, kindly translate for me what shvitzing means.

    Your Letters: Shvitzing; John Lennon 2010

  • For the moment, I ask your staff, who think that New York is the hometown of all 350 million Americans, kindly translate for me what shvitzing means.

    Your Letters: Shvitzing; John Lennon 2010

  • Hazmat suit, intolerable temperatures and humidity, mopping bird poop, shvitzing?

    Annie Spiegelman: Call of the WildCare 2010

  • Hazmat suit, intolerable temperatures and humidity, mopping bird poop, shvitzing?

    Annie Spiegelman: Call of the WildCare 2010

  • With 20-20 hindsight my fatal mistake was staying on till Sunset at Vermont but hey, it was still early and I was carrying a heavy laptop bag and wasn't into shvitzing from the walk from Hollywood to Sunset.

    Joel Epstein: A Handful of Fools in Lakers' Jerseys Give LA a Bad Name 2010

  • MR. DAISY WADDLES onstage dressed in black, and mops his brow with a black handkerchief as he sits ranting and shrieking and shvitzing at that cut-price altar of all theater monologuists — a desk with a glass of water.

    Pushing Up Daisey: Mencken-Loving Critic���s Sputtering Sentimental Journey 2008

  • MR. DAISY WADDLES onstage dressed in black, and mops his brow with a black handkerchief as he sits ranting and shrieking and shvitzing at that cut-price altar of all theater monologuists — a desk with a glass of water.

    Pushing Up Daisey: Mencken-Loving Critic���s Sputtering Sentimental Journey 2008

  • Children can enjoy "Bake Sale," but there are moments of absurdity that only adults will appreciate; for example, when Cupcake is shvitzing in the steam room, and his wrapper starts to peel.

    NYT > Home Page By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES 2011

  • But keep the towel on. shvitzing at the Finnish sauna, had his name posted on a faux AIPAC statement urging Israel to freeze settlements.

    JTA - Recent News Ron Kampeas 2010

  • Summertime and the living may be easy, but for us working slobs shvitzing bullets as we pound the pavement in the sweltering heat, it can also be the pits, in more ways than one.

    TreeHugger 2009

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