farchadat

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Pronunciations

farchadat (far-TSHAH-diht) listen

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Definitions

  • adj. Dizzy, confused.

  • adj. Having a headache.

  • adj. Smitten, charmed.

  • adj. Surprised, stunned.

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Example Sentences

  • "That guy walks around all fartshadet." (Rosten)

  • "My head is really fartshadet." (Rosten)

  • "He is really fartshadet by the girls." (Rosten)

  • "When she heard the outrageous prices they were asking, she was positively fartshadet!" (Rosten)

  • "She's a little farchadat since her children bought her one of those new cell phones." (JPS)

  • "So my grandmother used to describe herself as something that sounds like 'farchotted' when she meant discombobulated, uneasy, anxious etc." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • פֿאַרטשאַדעט fartshadet 'dazed'

      • Who Uses This

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

      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

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