shvitz
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German sweizzen, swizzen (Modern German Schweiß, schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ʃvɪts/
Noun
shvitz (countable and uncountable, plural shvitzes)
- Sweat.
- A traditional Jewish steambath of Eastern European origin.
Verb
shvitz (third-person singular simple present shvitzes, present participle shvitzing, simple past and past participle shvitzed)
- (intransitive) To sweat.
- 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
- Soon, the '80s and '90s guy was finding drums to pound and sweat lodges in which to shvitz out rivulets of shame.
- 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
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