Pronunciations
| gantseh | (GAN-tzuh) | listen |
Definitions
adj. Entire, complete; thorough; all of.
Example Sentences
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"I saw the gantseh mishpochah last week."
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"Finally, if you just want to forget the gantse Megillah with the reindeer and the mistletoe..." (source)
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"OK, OK, I don't need to hear the gantse mayse!"
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“He looks puny, but I once saw him down a gantze pizza pie.” (Weiser)
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"Boruch Dayan Emes I am Mamish crying. Gantz Klal yisroel, lets all get together and be mamshich the achdus that these 3 bocherim started and may that be a zchus to bring the geula that we so desperately need…" (source)
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Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
גאַנץ gants 'whole, entire'
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
- Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow
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Alternative Spellings
gantze, gantse, ganze, gantsa, gantza, gantsah, gantzah, gantz, ganz, ganze, gantzer, gantser, gantzeh
Notes
"Gantseh" with a final "-eh" sound is commonly used when the adjective precedes nouns in Jewish-English.
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