adj.
Pronunciation: ' yi-dish
Function: noun
Etymology: Yiddish yidish, short for yidish daytsh, literally, Jewish German, from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch, from jüdisch Jewish (fr. Jude Jew) + diutsch German
Date: 1875
: a High German language written in Hebrew characters that is spoken by Jews and descendants of Jews of central and eastern European origin
– Yiddish adjective