Pronunciations
| stam | (STAHM) | listen |
Definitions
adv. Only, simply, just for fun, not for a specific purpose.
interj. Just kidding!
interj. That's it!
Example Sentences
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"You’re going stam for the music and not for the social scene? Really?"
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"Al pi shulchan oruch, bread can be made by anyone. If you can be certain of the ingredients, then it’s kosher. Stam. No question." (source)
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"Stam! You thought I was serious?"
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"I'm fed up with him, he does everything so stam..." (Glinert)
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Modern Hebrew
Etymology
TH סתם stam > Y סתם stam
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
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- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
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Notes
Also used in several Hebrew phrases, including "sofer STaM" (an acronym: a sofer who writes Sifrei Torah, Tefillin, and Mezuzot), "yayin stam" (uncooked wine without kosher certification), and "cholov stam" (milk that's not cholov yisroel) -- in these last two uses, "stam" has the sense of "plain," or "regular."
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