soykher

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Definitions

  • n. A merchant, businessman.

Example Sentences

  • "His father was the uh, no, his grandfather was the rabbi, his great grandfather was the rabbi but his father was a merchant. Was a soykher, as we say in the heym, was a soykher." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y סוחר soykher

      • 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

      soycher, soikher, soicher

Notes

  • plural: 'sokhrim'

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