pesadik

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pesadik (PEY-suh-dik) listen

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Example Sentences

  • "We can't have pizza in our house next week because it's not pesedik."

  • "Don’t worry, your lunch does not have to be Pesadik." (source)

  • "And if I’m cooking for Passover

    in my bubbie’s peisedik pots and pans that were handed down to me, can I, in good conscience,

    prepare rice in them?!" (source)

  • "You couldn't dump a bunch of marmite or nutritional yeast in bread dough and have the bread rise. I know that's not how the whole peysadik issue is determined, but just for clarification." (source)

  • "Now the real puzzle of the season: do vegan matzo balls defy all laws of physics and chemistry? And is tapioca starch peysadik?" (http://inmolaraan.blogspot.com/2006/02/chocolate-ladys-2002-vegetarian.html)

  • "What’s the best recipe for a Pesadick sponge cake?" (source)

  • "Are you sure those cookies are pesachdik? They look too good to be made with matzah meal." (JPS)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • פּסחדיק peysekhdik 'fit for Passover', Hebrew word פסח pesach (peysekh in Yiddish) 'Passover' + Yiddish ־דיק -dik adjectival suffix.

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).

      Alternative Spellings

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