mensch
[mench]
- a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
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Origin of mensch
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Examples from the Web for mensch
Contemporary Examples
His proposal is the work of a mensch and, no doubt, an act of love.
Yet in my mind it made him more than a politician, more than a musician; it made him a mensch.
If that money actually winds up in the hands of needy kids, James seems like a mensch.
He is a familiar Apatow mensch, and somehow Rogen gets away with playing this guy over and over without becoming tiresome.
Historical Examples
Also, Mr. Mensch is not accurate in conveying the writer's meaning.
Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete DesignEdward Godfrey
I caught several times the word "Mensch," man; and also "Fressen," which last I looked up afterwards in my dictionary.
FalkJoseph Conrad
Spinoza was a God-intoxicated man (Gott-getrunkener 40 Mensch).
In Gothic we find both ‘man,’ and ‘Maunisk,’ the modern German ‘maun,’ and ‘mensch.’
TraditionJohn Francis Arundell
In Gothic we find both man and mannisks, the modern German mann and mensch.'
Word Origin and History for mensch
n.
"person of strength and honor," 1907, from Yiddish, from German Mensch, literally "man, person," from Old High German mennisco "human," from Proto-Germanic adjective *manniska- "human" (see mannish).
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