Pronunciations
| eppes | (EHP-ihs) | listen |
Definitions
adv. Somewhat, quite.
pro. Someone, something.
adj. Debatable, unsatisfactory.
art. Any kind of.
adv. For some reason.
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Example Sentences
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As in "something": “Eat epes.” (NJY)
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As in "for some reason": “Epes I’m not hungry.” (NJY)
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As in "quite": “She served epes a meal!” (NJY)
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As in "somebody": “He thinks he’s an epes.” (NJY)
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“I gave the meshulach eppis just to get him off my back.” (Weiser)
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“I'm eppis busy, but I can talk to you for a few minutes.” (Weiser)
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“He had just gotten up from a nap, but he still seemed eppis tired.” (Weiser)
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As in "any kind of": “Do you have E. a pen, even a cheap one, as long as it writes?” (Weiser)
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“I hear noises at night. I think there are eppis mice in the dorm.” (Weiser)
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Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
עפּעס epes
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- 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).
- Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow
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Alternative Spellings
epes, epis, eppis
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