to be mevazeh
Definitions
v. To scorn.
v. To humiliate, degrade.
Example Sentences
“You shouldn't be mevazeh him just because you don't get along with him.” (Weiser)
“I didn't want to be mevazeh my chavrusa, so I never told him how bad I thought his pshat was.” (Weiser)
"if this is the case,must i ask him for mechila for being mevaze him,or is this not considered bizayon talmid chochom?" (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Y מבֿזה זײַן mevaze 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
- 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).
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