pshore

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Definitions

  • n. A compromise.

Example Sentences

  • "Those people were committed to Orthodox Judaism and they really believed that the way to keep it going was to maintain all the rituals that are requested in Orthodox Judaism and just make this one pshore, make this one compromise, as I often would tell people, a major compromise." (source)

  • "Look, you'll have to face him in the street again. Settle for a peshara." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH פּשרה peshara > Y פּשרה pshore

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      pshoreh, peshara, pshara, psharah, pesharah

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