broiges
Pronunciations
broigez | (BROY-gez) | listen |
Definitions
adj. Angry, annoyed.
n. A dispute.
Example Sentences
"The winning hand was to send a card to somebody that you clearly had been broiges with who was not expecting a card from you." (source)
"There was a big broiges in the family after the Zaide was niftar."
"Everyone in that shul is broiges."
"He's brauches with us because we didn't call him on his birthday."
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Judeo-German
Etymology
From Heb ברוגז b'rogez 'in anger', through Yiddish ברוגז broyges 'angry; a broken relationship, a quarrel'
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Great Britain
- Australia / New Zealand
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
brauches, broygez, broyges, broigez, broges, brogez, berogez, beroygez, beroigez, beroges, beroyges, beroiges
Notes
A broygez tantz (broyges tants / broiges tants / broygez tanz) is a klezmer song and a wedding dance (dance of anger and reconciliation) traditionally performed by the groom, his father, and his father-in-law. Among German-American Jews: "brauches."
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