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单词 mieskeit
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mieskeitn.

Brit. /ˈmiːskeɪt/, /ˈmiːskʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈmisˌkeɪt/, /ˈmisˌkaɪt/
Forms: 1900s– meeskeit, 1900s– meeskite, 1900s– mieskayt, 1900s– mieskeit.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish mieskeyt.
Etymology: < Yiddish mieskeyt ugliness, an ugly person or thing < mies ugly, loathsome ( < post-biblical Hebrew mā'ūs loathsome, repulsive < Hebrew mē'as to despise, reject) + Yiddish -keyt, suffix forming abstract nouns.
colloquial.
Esp. in Jewish usage: an ugly person.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly person
hog's face1578
kex1619
troll1697
singed cat1836
ogre1843
plug-ugly1862
partan-face1895
bad looker1898
snout-face1923
Mr Potato Head1952
mieskeit1968
fuglya1970
grot1970
minger1992
1968 F. Ebb in Cabaret 129 She's the one I'll treasure, for I thought there could never be A bigger meeskite than me!
1970 New Yorker 20 June 31/1 You're stupid, your wife's a meeskeit.
1979 J. Heller Good as Gold (1980) viii. 368 The North was bombed to placate the South and salve the hurt feelings of the mieskeit and his umgliks.
1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 228/3 It sure takes a lot of balls for a mieskay [sic] like that to get up in front of people and perform.
1994 Jewish Jrnl. (Nexis) 6 Jan. 11b She calls the pretty Ellen meeskeit so the evil eye will steer clear.
1996 Newsday 15 June B03 When I looked up from the pillow, he would say: ‘Oy, you are such a mieskeit. I can't even stand to look at you in the morning!’ Then he would pretend to call my mother..to look at what a mieskeit her daughter was in the morning.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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