kibbutznik
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of kibbutznik
1945–50; < Yiddish kibutsnik, equivalent to kibuts kibbutz + -nik -nik
Example Sentences
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“In my soul, I’m a kibbutznik: I get nurtured and nourished by having people around.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2022
“The kibbutznik, who used to stand proud, now has to apologize because Israeli society has changed.”
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2021
Last seen in the company of a muscular kibbutznik, a free agent.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019
She cajoled Mr. Shapira, an aging kibbutznik and philosophy professor, to share the original audiotaped interviews that he had denied to legions of journalists and historians.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2015
To get around Israeli military censorship, we devised a code with a friendly kibbutznik in a strategically located collective farm by the Jordan, who phoned us tips.
From Time Magazine Archive
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