grober yung

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Pronunciations

grober yung (GRUH-ber juung) listen

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Definitions

  • n. A coarse, ignorant, uneducated young person.

Example Sentences

  • "They believe that maybe the crude, rude, bully — the grober yung — and sly real estate wheeler-dealer can force through change to brighten their future, as a “strongman” president who doesn’t just utter the usual flapdoodle about hope and change." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • גראָבער יונג grober yung

      • Who Uses This

      • 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).

      Alternative Spellings

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