ongepotchket

Definitions

• adj. "Excessively and unaesthetically decorated; overly baroque." (Rosten)
  

• adj. Overly elaborate, excessively decorated, slapped together senselessly, overdone, tacky, ostentatious, overcomplicated.
  

Example Sentences

• "The lampshade was a nice color but too ongepatchke for the room."
  

• "She preferred a plain china pattern but the one the saleslady showed her was angepatchkit."
  

• "Those decorations weren't nice. It was just ungepatchke."
  

• "Yeah, the recipe is good but honestly, it's ungepatchke." (30-something San Francisco Jew)
  

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Languages of Origin

• Yiddish

Etymology

• אָנגעפּאַטשקעט óngepatshket, past participle of infinitive אָנפּאַטשקען ónpatshken 'to soil, mess up; scribble'
  

Who Uses This

• Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
• Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
• Ethnic: Jews whose Jewish identity is primarily ethnic

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).

Alternative Spellings

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