lomdish

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Definitions

  • adj. Erudite, learned. adv. Logically.

  • adv. Logically.

  • adj. Intricate, complicated.

  • adj. Logical.

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Example Sentences

  • “He learned up the sugya so lomdish that only the best bochrim could follow.” (Weiser)

  • “This blatt is too lomdish to learn without a chavrusa.” (Weiser)

  • “He's too lomdish just to teach him how to drive without explaining the mechanics involved.” (Weiser)

  • "Rabbi Davidowitz is well known in the Torah world for his deep, sophisticated and lomdish shiurim." (source)

  • "Do me a favor and stop being so lamdish and just accept the norm." (source)

  • "If the gedolim think differently even though to your small lamdishe brain it seems not good, and a destruction of our future , it is in actuality the building of our ." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y לומדיש lomdish 'erudite'

      • Who Uses This

      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

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

      Alternative Spellings

      lomdishe, lamdish, lamdishe, lumdish, lumdishe

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