farbissiner

Definitions

• adj. embittered, sullen, mean
• n. sourpuss, mean person

Example Sentences

• "He is so farbissen he gets no pleasure from anything."
• "Wizard of Oz, when the farbissiner gets the house dropped on her" (http://greatbookshalfread.com/page/5/)

Languages of Origin

• Yiddish

Etymology

• (פֿאַרביס(ע)נ(ע)(ר farbís(e)n(e)(r)

Who Uses This

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

Regions

• North America

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).
• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
• 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

farbissin, farbisseneh, farbisine, farbissen, farbisn, farbisiner, farbissina

Notes

• In Yiddish, farbisn is the (predicate) adjective form, farbisene is the feminine noun form, and farbisener is the masculine noun form.