Noun: shvitz
| Singular | shvitz |
| Plural | shvitzes |
Sample Sentences
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It was not, or not only, the heat and ripeness of the shvitz that were making Litvak’s pulse thrum and his head spin. [2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 343:]
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“Hey, hey, Jimmy Brogan. Thanks for meeting me.” “Welcome to the schvitz, kid. The most comfortable place on Earth. It's like crawling back into your mother.” “Is that something people wanna do?” [2013 November 12, Gabe Liedman, “Old School” (15:48 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Jimmy Brogan (Stacy Keach):]
Nouns inflected like shvitz
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: English Nouns '
sweat'.
Verbs referencing "shvitz"
English Nouns
sweat.