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Word: Shvitz
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1930s: from Yiddish shvits ‘sauna, steam bath’, probably from German Schwitze
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈʃvɪts
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a sauna or steam bath
Short Definition:sauna or steam bath
Examples:- our great-grandfather and his brothers went to the shvitz together
Variant Forms:
- schvitz
Word: Shvitz
Speech Type: Verb
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈʃvɪts
Dialects: British English
Definition:
sweat
Short Definition:sweat
Examples:- it was one of those godawful days with a billion percent humidity and everybody was schvitzing
Variant Forms:
- schvitz
