linker

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Pronunciations

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Definitions

  • n. A leftist, socialist, secularist.

Example Sentences

  • "He came from a linker family, and went to the Peretz Schule instead of the Talmud Torah."

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • לינק link 'left; leftist'

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      linke

Notes

  • Used by Ashkenazim in their 70s, especially to refer to their childhood Jewish schooling in the 1930s and 1940s.

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