‘our great-grandfather and his brothers went to the shvitz together’
‘The kid looked like someone your zaide chatted with every week at the shvitz up on 10th Street.’
‘Some form of this ancient practice is found in cultures around the world, from the Finnish sauna to the Russian bania, and from the Jewish shvitz to the Turkish hamman.’
‘The ceremonial sweat lodge, for instance, had an easy precedent in the old-fashioned shvitz.’
‘The hot to cold is traditional in the shvitz, and it actually increases circulation and gives an overall sense of well-being.’
‘If you can handle the process of dunking yourself in a tank of ice-cold water upon exiting the schvitz, consider yourself thoroughly cleansed and rejuvenated.’
‘I poured some icy buckets over my head and entered the schvitz.’
1.1A session in a sauna or steam bath.
‘when it's time for thinking I like to have a shvitz’
‘One of the most memorable dreams involved me conversing with Lou as we took a shvitz together.’
‘It reminded me of the time I took a schvitz with him at the 92nd Street Y.’
‘Since I'm the sweatiest guy I know, I took some wicking gear for a test schvitz.’
‘Off to have a schvitz and a massage.’
‘We're sure it was warm in Venice, but we didn't notice any other starlets looking like they just finished a schvitz in the sauna.’
‘The schvitz is an experience in and of itself.’
verb
[no object]informal North American
Sweat.
‘it was one of those godawful days with a billion percent humidity and everybody was schvitzing’
‘Now let me schvitz in peace.’
‘He probably does tend to schvitz more than most.’
‘They have like 6 rooms perhaps, you can lay in the rain, schvitz to your heart's content.’
‘In the intimate confines of the Cabaret theater, where they literally schvitz right onto the audience, the whole house crackles with their energy.’
‘Without powder that face paint is just gonna melt off your face the second you start to schvitz.’
‘For example, yesterday I was definitely shvitzing.’
Origin
1930s from Yiddish shvits ‘sauna, steam bath’, probably from German Schwitze.
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