Yeshivish
See also: yeshivish
English
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Etymology
[edit]Either a blend of yeshiva + English, or yeshiva + -ish.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Yeshivish
- A sociolect of English, incorporating Yiddish, Hebrew, and other languages, spoken by many Orthodox Jews and associated with the culture of yeshiva.
- Synonym: Yeshiva English
References
[edit]- ^ James Lambert (January 2018), “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, volume 38, number 3, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13: “Another case in point is the term Yeshivish, referring to the hybrid English used in yeshivas, Jewish religious schools, which may be from yeshiva and (Engl)ish, or merely an extension of the regularly formed adjective yeshiva and ish.”