mashke

Definitions

• alcoholic beverage (typically vodka or whiskey)
  

Example Sentences

• "The farbrengen last week was a disaster--we ran out of mashkeh by 9:00 PM."
  

• "Let's first get out a little mashkeh and drink a lechayim--and then get down to business." (Glinert)
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• משקה mashke 'drink'
  

Who Uses This

• Chabad: Jews affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement

Regions

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

• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

Alternative Spellings

mashkie, mashki, mashky, mashkeh