to be meshadech
Definitions
v. To introduce.
v. To be connected by marriage (with).
Example Sentences
“Once he was meshadech me to the computer, I could never use a typewriter again.” (Weiser)
"If someone doesn’t want to be meshadech with us because we have a down syndrome child, we do not want to be meshadech with them." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Y משדך זײַן meshadekh zayn
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
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to be meshadekh
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