| 释义 |
ˈYiddishism orig. U.S.
[f. Yiddish n. (a.) + -ism.]
a. A linguistic feature influenced by or derived from Yiddish.
b. Advocacy of Yiddish culture and language.
1926Amer. Mercury VII. 207/1 Most Yidgin writers qualify their Yiddishisms with parenthetical English explanations. 1933in A. A. Roback Curiosities of Jewish Lit. viii. 124 Doeblin sees his model in something on the lines of Yiddishism on a world scale. 1938Better Eng. Feb. 50 No one has yet made an attempt to collect all these Yiddishisms into a single collection. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 202 The use of better with should here is another Yiddishism..repeated in the announcer's next sentence: ‘Better we should stop the clock.’ 1966New Society 12 May 9/2 The idiom of the New Yorker—Gentile or Jew—is..full of translated Yiddishisms (‘I should live so long’, ‘Who needs it?’ ‘You should pardon the expression’ and ‘Now he tells me’.) 1978Soviet Jewish Affairs VIII. 73 Since Tsinberg's claim, there has been debate as to whether the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century ‘Yiddishists’ can properly be viewed as forerunners of modern Yiddishism. 1981Amer. Speech LVI. 17 The noun glitsh is a Yiddishism..from the verb glitshn ‘to slide’. |