plugte
Definitions
n. A controversy.
Example Sentences
"Ashkenaz well knew of plugte derabonen (disagreement among scholars) and makhloykes haposkim (controversy among the codifiers)." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Y פּלוגתּא plukte
- 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
plugteh, plukte, plukteh
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