tsiter

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Definitions

  • v. To tremble.

  • v. To be anxious (about).

Example Sentences

  • "For example, there is plenty and more on the traditional anti-Christian motifs embedded in many Yiddish phrases, enough to make a modern Jewish person (or Yiddish teacher of 'multicultural' students) want to tsiter (tremble), khalesh (faint), pretend the book doesn’t exist (nisht geshtoygn, nit gefloygn), or makhn pleyte (run for it), as if from a sreyfe (fire)." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • ציטערן tsitern, lit. 'to tremble'


    ציטערן איבער tsitern iber, lit. 'to be anxious about'

      • 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

      tsitter, tziter, tzitter

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