mensch
/mɛnʃ
/(also mensh)
noun North American informal
A person of integrity and honour.If nothing else, I want to go out, I want to die like a man, like a mensch, like a good person....
- Schultze also asks a provocative question, ‘Why do we talk about Internet geeks, hackers, and spammers but never about Internet mensches or saints?’
- Julie, you were a true mensch, the living proof of how one life touches another and another and another until, to paraphrase the Talmud, you have touched the world.
Origin
1930s: Yiddish mensh, from German Mensch, literally 'person'.