farshter

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Definitions

  • v. To spoil, frustrate.

Example Sentences

  • "If she would at least come from a balabatish type of divorced family, I could see being more supportive of the shidduch. We are a quiet, easygoing family. We don’t know from shtick, and we don’t want our son to get mixed up with such people...Who knows what else they will come up with? However, we don’t want to farshter the shidduch if she is his zivug. Should we just be mevater and go along with everything?" (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • פֿאַרשטערן farshtern 'to spoil, frustrate'

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      farschter

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