kurveh
Pronunciations
kurveh | (KOOR-veh) | listen |
Definitions
n. (Profane) whore, slut, bitch.
Example Sentences
"Walking into a restaurant with a long-legged kurveh on his arm!" (Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint)
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
קורװע kurve
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
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Alternative Spellings
kurva, kurve
Notes
used in many central and eastern European languages, including Polish kurwa, Hungarian kurva
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