shver
Definitions
adj. Difficult, onerous, complex.
Example Sentences
That's going to be shver.
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
שװער shver 'difficult; heavy'
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- 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).
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Alternative Spellings
schver
Notes
שװער shver is coincidentally also the Yiddish word for a father-in-law (cf. שװיגער shviger 'mother-in-law')
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