Definitions

• n. Food; a dish.
  

• n. A treat, delicacy.
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• Y מאכל maykhl
  

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

maychl, maychel, maykhel, meykhl, meykhel, meychel, meychl