单词 | yiddishism |
释义 | Yiddishismn. orig. U.S. 1. A Yiddish word, idiom, or other linguistic feature; esp. one adopted into another language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Yiddish > linguistic feature of Yiddishism1926 1926 Amer. Mercury Feb. 207/1 Most Yidgin writers qualify their Yiddishisms with parenthetical English explanations. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 202 The use of better with should here is another Yiddishism..repeated in the announcer's next sentence: ‘Better we should stop the clock.’ 1966 New 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’.) 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic v. 43 A compulsion for chasing women..was rooted in something deeply pathological, as was his habit of..exploding with crass Yiddishisms like Shmohawk! and Chei kuck! and Zolst es shtipin! 2. Advocacy or promotion of Yiddish culture or language. Cf. Yiddishist n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > other spec. Portugalism1676 pan-Slavism1844 Panhellenism1849 pan-Slavonism1850 Hellenism1854 Illyrism1854 Magyarism1862 pan-Celticism1863 Turkeyism1877 pan-Americanism1889 Nipponism1899 New Zealandism1921 Black Nationalism1927 Yiddishism1932 1932 Jewish Exponent (Philadelphia) 13 May 8/3 Yiddish culture may be flourishing, but is not Yiddishism anathema to a Reform rabbi of Rabbi Wolsey's stamp? 1942 Universal Jewish Encycl. VII. 58/2 He [sc. Lifshitz] has earned the name father of modern Yiddishism. 1978 Soviet Jewish Affairs 8 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. 2008 Forward (Nexis) 22 Feb. b6 The First Conference for the Yiddish Language also turned out to be the last. The writers, intellectuals and radicals who attended, and who virtually invented secular Yiddishism, never convened again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1926 |
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