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   Yid·dish

   /ˈyidiSH/

   

   noun

   • 1. a language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages and is today spoken mainly in the US, Israel, and Russia: "Faigele was mum's name in Yiddish"

   adjective

   • 1. relating to Yiddish: "a Yiddish word"

   Word Origin late 19th century: from Yiddish yidish (daytsh) ‘Jewish (German)’.

   Scrabble Points: 15

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