khoge
Definitions
n. A non-Jewish holiday.
Example Sentences
"if it this Uman choge wouldn’t have always fall on Rosh Hashona, I would have gone one year to watch it , but since by coincidence it always on the same days as the Yiddish rosh hasona, i can’t go." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Y חגא khoge from Textual Hebrew חָגָּא 'terror'
- 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).
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Alternative Spellings
khogeh, chogeh, choge
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