'Yiddish' definitions:
noun
A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
- Yiddish \Yid"dish\, n. [G. j["u]disch, prop., Jewish, fr. Jude
Jew. See Jew, Jewish.]
A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle
German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence.
It is written in Hebrew characters.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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