gehakte tsores

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Definitions

  • n. Huge problems; a misterable state.

Example Sentences

  • "He looks like having a good time smacking me around, and I lay in gehakte tsores--in great discomfort." (The Story of my Life: Saved from the Holocaust by Deportation by Jacob Goldstein)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • געהאַקטע צרות gehakte tsores, lit. 'chopped troubles'

      • 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

      gehackte tsores, gehakte tsoris, gehackte tsoris, gehakte tsorris, gehakte tsorres, gehackte tsorris, gehackte tsorres

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