noun

• 1A Yiddish word or idiom, especially one adopted into another language.

  ‘I speak with many Brooklynisms and an occasional Yiddishism’

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  • ‘Throughout the 20c, Yiddishisms have continued to make their way into English, increasingly as slang.’
  • ‘His speech was punctuated by Yiddishisms, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.’

• 2Advocacy of Yiddish culture.

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  • ‘forerunners of modern Yiddishism’