tzimmes
Americannoun
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Jewish Cooking. any of various sweetened combinations of vegetables, fruit, and sometimes meat, prepared as a casserole or stew.
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Informal. fuss; uproar; hullabaloo.
He made such a tzimmes over that mistake!
Etymology
Origin of tzimmes
First recorded in 1890–95; from Yiddish tsimes, akin to dialectal German (Swabia) zimmes, zimbes “compote, stew,” Swiss German zimis “lunch”; compound (originally a prepositional phrase) of Middle High German z, ze, unstressed variant of zuo ( German zu ) “at, to” + Middle High German, Old High German imbiz, imbīz “snack, light meal” ( German Imbiss ), noun derivative of Old High German enbīzan “to take nourishment”; see origin at to, in- 1, bite
Example Sentences
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She’ll cook matzoh ball soup and tzimmes, a stew made of sweet potatoes and carrots.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022
While "tzimmes" translates from Yiddish as "a big fuss," the dish is pretty simple: carrots and sweet potatoes stewed with dried fruit and warming spices.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022
His tzimmes — typically made of carrots and honey — includes roasted carrots soaked in carrot juice and honey with salsa verde buttermilk dressing, a condiment that did not appear at our Seder tables.
From Washington Post
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