gevald
Pronunciations
gevalt | (geh-VALT) | listen |
Definitions
interj. An interjection of alarm.
Example Sentences
"Gevald! Why did you put that slimy thing in my sleeping bag?!"
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
גװאַלד gvald 'violence, force; help!'
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- 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
gevalt, oy gevald, oy gevalt
Notes
See also oy.
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