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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A linguistic feature of Yiddish, especially a Yiddish idiom or phrasing that appears in another language.
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Examples
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Steve: What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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Steve: What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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Yiddishism or no Yiddishism, this must count as one of the most affirmative and masculine sentences ever set down.
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Yiddishism or no Yiddishism, this must count as one of the most affirmative and masculine sentences ever set down.
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Yiddishism or no Yiddishism, this must count as one of the most affirmative and masculine sentences ever set down.
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Ah-ha, you fell for my clever trap, inserting another Yiddishism into my explanation of the first one.
personal post alert 2005
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