hak a tshaynik

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Definitions

  • v. To babble, annoy, talk nonsense.

Example Sentences

  • "This is mishegas: to live by yourself in a part of the world where there are no baked potatoes in restaurants, where every radio station and every television channel has a shreier hak a tshaynik about Jesus and some heavenly place you'll go to when you're good and dead. Such shtus! It's enough to make anyone verdreht!" (Blue Jay and Found Objects: Collected Poems 2022 by Carmine Giordano)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • האַקן אַ טשײַניק hakn a tshaynik

      • 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

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