macher
Pronunciations
macher | (ma-khur) | listen |
Definitions
n. "Someone who arranges, fixes, has connections...someone who is [very] active in an organization" (Rosten) "important person", "hot shot."
n. Somebody who is successful, handy, dextrous.
Example Sentences
"He's a big macher in Hollywood; everyone wants to meet with him."
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
מאַכער makher 'lit. maker; influential person, fixer'
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
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- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- 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).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
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makher
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