Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "if it this Uman choge wouldn’t have always fall on Rosh Hashona, I would have gone one year to watch it , but since by coincidence it always on the same days as the Yiddish rosh hasona, i can’t go." (source)

Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y חגא khoge from Textual Hebrew חָגָּא 'terror'

    • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      khogeh, chogeh, choge

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