schatchen

American

[shaht-khuhn, shaht-khahn] / ˈʃɑt xən, ʃɑtˈxɑn /

noun

Yiddish and Hebrew.

PLURAL

schatchanim

PLURAL

schatchens

shadkhan.

Example Sentences

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"Schatchens don't like to fool away their time no more as I do, Gurin; and you could take it from me, no girl is going to the trouble to fix herself up and make a nice supper for you and the Schatchen simply for the pleasure of seeing a swell dresser, Gurin."

From Project Gutenberg

Associated words: misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity, intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth, betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen, connubial, connubiality, fiancé, Hymen, fiancée, troth, plight, nuptial, nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial. marriageability, n. nubility. marriageable, a. nubile. marriage song. epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium. marrow, n. medulla, pith. marrow-bones, n. pl. knees. marry, v. wed, espouse.

From Project Gutenberg

Jewish marriage broker. schatchen. jewel, n. gem, brilliant. jewelry, n. jewels; bijoutry.

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