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shvitz

noun
/ʃvɪts/

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German swizzen (Modern German schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Doublet of sweat.

  1. derived from *swoyd-✻ — “to sweat”
  2. derived from *swait-✻
  3. derived from swizzen
  4. borrowed from שוויצן

Definitions

  1. Sweat.

  2. A traditional Jewish steambath of Eastern European origin.

    • It was not, or not only, the heat and ripeness of the shvitz that were making Litvak’s pulse thrum and his head spin.

  3. A sauna or sauna session.

    • “Hey, hey, Jimmy Brogan. Thanks for meeting me.” “Welcome to the schvitz, kid. The most comfortable place on Earth. It's like crawling back into your mother.” “Is that something people wanna do?”
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To sweat.

      • Soon, the '80s and '90s guy was finding drums to pound and sweat lodges in which to shvitz out rivulets of shame.

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Derived

shvitzer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shvitz. 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