noch

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Pronunciations

noch (NOHKH) listen

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Definitions

  • adv. Still, yet, moreover.

  • det. Another.

  • adj. Else, in addition.

Example Sentences

  • "Smolka, who swam in the pool at Olympic Park, he's alive too? And a professor at Princeton noch?" (Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint)

  • "Give me nokh an example." (NJY)

  • “What nokh did he tell you?” (NJY)

  • “Did you tell him more, nokh?” (NJY)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • נאָך nokh

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain

      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).

      Alternative Spellings

      nokh

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