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Mensch   /mɛnʃ/   Listen
Mensch

noun
1.
A decent responsible person with admirable characteristics.  Synonym: mensh.





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... grimacing, without noise—very touching, very quiet, with something more of pity than of pain in her face, as one weeps in compassion rather than in grief—and Hermann, before her, declaimed. I caught several times the word "Mensch," man; and also "Fressen," which last I looked up afterwards in my dictionary. It means "Devour." Hermann seemed to be requesting an answer of some sort from her; his whole body swayed. She remained mute and perfectly ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad
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Words linked to "Mensch" :   mensh, Yiddish, good person


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