Jewish English

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The interrelated socio-ethnolects of the English language used by the Jews of Anglophonic countries, typically peppered with religious or cultural influences from Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish languages (though usually not to the same extent as Yeshivish, which is essentially English but with extensive use of Aramaic, Hebrew and Yiddish terminology related to halacha (Jewish law) and Gemara learning).
adj
  1. Pertaining to, produced by, or originating from the Jews of England or Britain

Word forms

Jewish English

Related words

Yeshivish Yinglish Anglo-Jewish Anglo-Jewry
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