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mensch

noun
/mɛnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Yiddish מענטש (mentsh, “an honorable person”), from Middle High German mensch, mensche, mennische, from Old High German mennisko (“man, human being”), from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”). The spelling mensch was influenced by German Mensch; compare the alternative spellings. Doublet of mennish; compare also mense. For the semantics, compare Latin humanē (“kindly, courteously”), English humane.

  1. derived from *manniskaz✻ — “human”
  2. derived from mennisko — “man, human being”
  3. derived from mensch
  4. borrowed from מענטש — “an honorable person”

Definitions

  1. A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion

    A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion; a gentleman.

    • […]Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch[…]
    • Doctor Dreyfuss [to C. C. Baxter]: Be a mensch!
    • Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for mensch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA