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Definition of 'Yiddish'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Yiddish
a language of central and E European Jews and their descendants elsewhere: based on Rhenish dialects of Middle High German with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and Aramaic, the Slavic languages, and other sources, and written in the Hebrew alphabet.

2. (adj.) Yiddish
of or pertaining to Yiddish.

Etymology: (1885–90)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Yiddish
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

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Yiddish
a kind of mongrel language spoken by foreign Jews in England.

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