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‖ Shabbos|ˈʃabəs| Also Shabas, Shabbes, Shabbuss, Shabes, Shabus. Pl. -im. [Yiddish shabes, ad. Heb. šabbāṯ Sabbath. See also Shabbat.] Among Ashkenazi Jews: the Sabbath. Also attrib. Phr. to make Shabbos, to prepare for the Sabbath.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. II. iv. xxxiii. 348 ‘Shlav'm Shabbes fyock on,’ said Adelaide Rebekah. ‘Her Sabbath frock... She'll have her Sabbath frock on this evening.’ 1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 151, I shall have no fish for Shabbos. 1959H. Pinter Birthday Party i. 14 After lunch on Shabbuss we'd go and sit in a couple of deck-chairs. 1960F. Raphael Limits of Love iii. iv. 317 The chauffeur always carried a box of good things..which the inmates came to enjoy on the following shabas eve. 1968M. Richler in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. 150 We're orthodox here. Today is shabus. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 318 Shabbes begins just before sunset on Friday. The wife and mother, dressed in her very best, lights the Shabbes candles and offers a benediction. 1975C. Potok In Beginning ii. 126 Yesterday was such a nice day. It was a pleasure to make Shabbos yesterday. Ibid. iii. 185 I'll read it [sc. the Torah]..in the synagogue, for Shabbosim and holidays. 1979H. Howard Sealed Envelope xiv. 181 Every week she expects you for shabbos dinner but always you have excuses. b. Comb., as Shabbos-goy [goy] = Sabbath goy s.v. Sabbath 4; also fem. Shabbos-goya(h; also fig.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 158 Poor women, frequently Irish, known as Shabbos-goyahs or fire-goyahs, acted as stokers to the Ghetto at twopence a hearth. 1959M. Wilson They came as Strangers iii. iii. 194 Victor Gollancz's parents were strictly orthodox,..never took a bus on the Sabbath and had a Shabbes goy to light the fires on that day. 1962B. Abrahams tr. Life of Glückel of Hameln iv. 102 Send the shabbos-goya to me. I want to send her somewhere. 1969A. Laski Dominant Fifth v. 187 Perhaps..we..have deliberately assimilated him, made him a tame cat, or Shabbos-goy. 1978Maledicta 1977 I. 323 Reinhold Aman, president, director, chief-lucubrator and shabes-goy of Maledicta, edits, typesets and publishes this journal considered by the repressed as a Gross Encounter of the Worst Kind. |