pisk

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Pronunciations

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Definitions

  • n. A mouth, grimace, snout.

  • n. (often in diminutive 'piskel' or 'piskele') An eloquent speaker.

  • n. A contemptible person.

Example Sentences

  • "What a pisk on her."

  • "That person is such a pisk!" (source)

  • "Though my pisk is lacking Yiddish, it's familiar to my ear." (source)

  • "I heard him lecture. There is a pisk!" (Rosten)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • פּיסק pisk

      • 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).

      Alternative Spellings

      piskele, piskele, piskel, piskl, pisck

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