Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Sweat.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A traditional Jewish steambath of Eastern European origin.

  3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A sauna or sauna session.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. I shvitzed the whole day while schlepping that dreck around.

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Origin

Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German swizzen (Modern German schwit

Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German swizzen (Modern German schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Doublet of sweat.

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Forms

plural: shvitzes

Word family

1 related words
Derivedshvitzer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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