geshmak
Definitions
adj. Delicious, delightful.
Example Sentences
"The food was geshmak."
"He's a geshmakteh mensch!" -Jackie Mason
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
געשמאַק
- 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
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- 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).
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Alternative Spellings
geshmahk, geschmak, geschmack
Notes
Sometimes when preceding a noun, this adjective can be geshmakteh / geshmakte / geshmakta
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