ongepotchket
Pronunciations
ungepatchke | (UNG-guh-PAHTCH-kuh) | listen |
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'
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- Ethnic: Jews whose Jewish identity is primarily ethnic
- North America
- Great Britain
- 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).
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Alternative Spellings
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Notes
Accents on first and third syllable: AWN-ge-PATCH-kit.
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