kolboynik

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Definitions

  • n. A jack of all trades.

  • n. A rascal.

  • n. A small trash container placed on each table of a kibbutz's communal dining hall.

Example Sentences

  • "A first-rate talmid chacham, my grandfather was what was often called a kolboynik (a sort of Jewish Jack-of-all-trades), who served as the rabbi/chazzan/shochet/mohel and melamed in various small communities in England and Wales during the first half of the twentieth century." (source)

  • "The familiar attributes of the kibbutz dining room - a ceramic mural created by a local artist, a grand piano, a kolboynik (a small bowl for garbage on each table ), colored plastic trays and aluminum pans - all serve to arouse memories, the bittersweet madeleines of Israeli culture." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y כּל־בוניק kol-boynik

      • 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

      kolboynick, kolboinick, kolboinik, kol boynik, kol boynick, kol boinick, kol boinik, kol-boynik, kol-boynick, kol-boinick, kol-boinik

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