| dilly | A delightful, remarkable, or excellent person or thing; freq. ironical. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| fay | Abbrev. of ofay n. adj. | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| ginzo | In contemptuous use: a person of Italian extraction; also as adj. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| hood | Abbrev. of hoodlum n. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| jack | trans. To take illegally, steal (esp. a car or something from a car); to rob, burgle. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| landsman | In Jewish use: a Jewish person who immigrated, or whose family immigrated, from the… | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| latke | In Jewish cookery, a pancake, esp. one made with grated potato. | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| mellow | A spiritual or devotional song; an improvised jazz vocal. | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| Merc | A motor vehicle of the Mercury make; (in quot. 1954) an engine for this make of car. | 1954 | Go To Quotation |
| Mormonry | = Mormondom n. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| nitwittedness | = nitwittery n. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| nouveau | = nouveau riche n. Usu. in pl. | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| out-country | Belonging or relating to another country; coming from another country. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| paper-pusher | U.S. slang. A person who makes or passes off counterfeit money, forged cheques, etc. Cf. paperhanger n. 2. | 1928 | Go To Quotation |
| patsy | Satisfactory, acceptable, passable. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| potica | In Balkan and East European (esp. Slovene) cuisine: a bread with a rich filling… | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| pussyfooting | Evasive, non-committal; excessively cautious or hesitant. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| ride man | N. Amer. A person who operates a ride (ride n. 4b) at an amusement park or the like. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| roboteer | A person who designs or constructs robots; an expert in robotics. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| schmaltz | trans. To impart a sentimental atmosphere to; to play (music) in a ‘corny’ or sentimental manner. Also with up. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| sholy | Representation of U.S. Black and Southern dial. pronunc. of surely adv. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| speako | = speakeasy n. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| squillion | Hyperbolically: a very large number of millions; an enormous number. Freq. as adj. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| Stalinoid | Resembling or having some characteristics of Stalinism; loosely Stalinist. Also as n. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| -worder | Following a numeral, forming compounds denoting a text or utterance consisting of the specified number of words. | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| yentz | trans. To cheat, to swindle (see also quot. 1939). Also fig. Cf. screw v. 6d 13. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| Yiddishism | A linguistic feature influenced by or derived from Yiddish. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
