单词 | shvitz |
释义 | shvitzn. North American colloquial. Esp. in Jewish usage: a sauna, steam bath, or bath house; (later also) an instance of using a sauna or steam bath. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > a bath > hot air or steam bath stew1390 stovec1485 stufe1541 stow1614 furo1615 Turkish bath1644 estuary1657 steam-bath1725 Russian bath1770 stufa1832 sweat-bath1877 sauna1881 shvitz1937 1937 Independent Exhibitors Film Bull. 13 Mar. 11/1 Tuesday is now ‘shvitz night’ at the Camac for Vine Streeters. 1948 Menorah Jrnl. Spring 239/1 I asked a grizzled oilman next to me in the ‘shvitz’ what he thought of today's headlines. 1953 Boston Sunday Globe 20 Dec. a13/8 Other facilities include..the only authentic Russian and Finnish ‘shwitz’ baths in the South. 1968 ‘W. Allen’ in New Yorker 27 July 33/2 Check into a hotel and go to a movie. Take a schvitz. 1982 Jewish Exponent 22 Jan. 29/2 The health spas can't compare with this shvitz. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Sept. c1 Georgie, baby, take a shvitz, maybe a vacation. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shvitzv. North American colloquial. intransitive. Esp. in Jewish usage: to sweat. Also occasionally transitive with it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > sweat [verb (intransitive)] sweatc900 reekc1475 resudate1599 sudate1599 melt1614 transpire1648 perspire1684 perspirate1844 shvitz1957 1957 G. Talese in N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 17/1 During this past week he has been ‘shvitzing it’, which is Yiddish for ‘sweating it out’. 1962 Show June 100/1 ‘Chubby's schwitz-ing!’ ‘Who isn't sweating?’ 1989 Jewish Press (Electronic ed.) 19 May 12 I'm breathing hard and I'm working on my cardiovascular system—and I'm shvitzing! 1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Oct. e1 The lettering in one Torah had become unacceptably faint because..he schvitzed into the parchment. 2010 J. Shagrin Veganize This ii. 37 If you find you've begun to shvitz as well, plunge your face into the ice bath. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937v.1957 |
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