oysvorf

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Definitions

  • n. An outcast, scoundrel.

Example Sentences

  • “One oysvorf can paralyze the work of a whole committee.” (NJY)

  • “If you keep talking like an apikoros (non-believer), you’ll be an oysvorf." (source)

  • “Ever since they heard he'd been at the beach, he was branded an ois varf." (Weiser)

  • "I personally find no issue with labels as long as they arent negative or derogatory like bum, bummy, loser, ois varf, tuna beigel, and other such pejoratives." (source)

  • “Sure he’s a Bohemian; even as a child, he was an oysvorf.” (NJY)

  • “I can’t understand an oysvorf like that one!” (NJY)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • אױסװאָרף oysvorf

      • Who Uses This

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

      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).
      • Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).

      Alternative Spellings

      oisvorf, oysvurf, oisvurf, ois vorf, oys vorf, oisvarf, oysvarf, ois varf, oys varf

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