{ "shtetl":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a small Jewish town or village formerly found in Eastern Europe":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "How did Boyle decide what town in the former Yugoslavia would serve as the setting for Tevye\u2019s shtetl ", "The Polish shtetl was created by having the designers read the script and look for references of 1930\u2019s Poland, and having a historian fact check their work. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 17 May 2022", "That was the solution as well for the headstones of the fake shtetl \u2019s cemetery. \u2014 Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com , 11 Aug. 2021", "In 2009, my dad and I went looking for my great-great-grandfather Zalman Rozman\u2019s grave in Novi Veledniki, a small shtetl near Chernobyl dating back to 1545. \u2014 ELLE , 15 Mar. 2022", "Strasberg, twenty-one years old, was born in a Polish shtetl and brought up on the Lower East Side. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022", "Her voice is unmistakable, a Valley Girl\u2019s vocal fry mixed with Bernie Sanders\u2019s metropolitan shtetl twang. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 15 Feb. 2022", "Born into a Polish shtetl in 1886 and trained as a tailor, the young man traveled overland across the European continent at the turn of the century, hoping to escape the pogroms of the old world for the promise of the new. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 25 Nov. 2021", "He was born in 1896 in Poritzk, a shtetl in what is now northwestern Ukraine. \u2014 Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker , 15 Nov. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1949, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Yiddish shtetl , from Middle High German stetel , diminutive of stat place, town, city, from Old High German, place \u2014 more at stead entry 1":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8sht\u0101-", "\u02c8shte-t\u1d4al" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134523", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "shtg":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ "shortage":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044641", "type":[ "abbreviation" ] }, "shthg":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ "sheathing":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051223", "type":[ "abbreviation" ] }, "shtick":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a usually comic or repetitious performance or routine : bit":[], ": one's special trait, interest, or activity : bag":[ "he's alive and well and now doing his shtick out in Hollywood", "\u2014 Robert Daley" ] }, "examples":[ "That joke is part of his shtick .", "Sports are just not my shtick .", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The shtick may have crossed the line, and now it's gotten him into a situation that he is not really equipped for. \u2014 Mma Junkie, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022", "And then Colin Trevorrow [director and co-screenwriter of the \u2018Jurassic World\u2019 trilogy] kind of gave him mouth to mouth, and brought him into this world in which his whole shtick really mattered and really affected other things. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 10 June 2022", "Eventually the foul ball shtick gets tiring, even Sam will admit that. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022", "It\u2019s the kind of self-aware shtick that\u2019s perfectly suited to an in-ring veteran of more than 30 years who\u2019s known for constantly reinventing himself, and pokes at the tribalism between fans of the two companies with surgical precision. \u2014 Anthony Bartkiewicz, SPIN , 13 May 2022", "Loop parking lots placed them on cars, and the combination of words and shtick turned the trick. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 3 Mar. 2022", "Gilbert Gottfried\u2019s manic, loudmouthed stand-up routines mixed old-fashioned borscht-belt shtick with cringeworthy vulgarity. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Apr. 2022", "This is where Broderick\u2019s shtick pays off best, as Roy resorts to increasingly desperate measures, including shimmying along the window ledge above Fifth Avenue in an attempt to access the bathroom. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Mar. 2022", "My tendency in such situations is to turn my role into shtick \u2014I\u2019m the wisecracking Daria, the mordant brunette, the one whose qualities will age well. \u2014 Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic , 9 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1959, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Yiddish shtik pranks, literally, piece, from Middle High German st\u00fccke , from Old High German stucki ; akin to Old English stycce piece, Old High German stoc stick \u2014 more at stock entry 1":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8shtik" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "act", "bit", "number", "routine", "turn" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162321", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "shtik":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a usually comic or repetitious performance or routine : bit":[], ": one's special trait, interest, or activity : bag":[ "he's alive and well and now doing his shtick out in Hollywood", "\u2014 Robert Daley" ] }, "examples":[ "That joke is part of his shtick .", "Sports are just not my shtick .", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The shtick may have crossed the line, and now it's gotten him into a situation that he is not really equipped for. \u2014 Mma Junkie, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022", "And then Colin Trevorrow [director and co-screenwriter of the \u2018Jurassic World\u2019 trilogy] kind of gave him mouth to mouth, and brought him into this world in which his whole shtick really mattered and really affected other things. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 10 June 2022", "Eventually the foul ball shtick gets tiring, even Sam will admit that. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022", "It\u2019s the kind of self-aware shtick that\u2019s perfectly suited to an in-ring veteran of more than 30 years who\u2019s known for constantly reinventing himself, and pokes at the tribalism between fans of the two companies with surgical precision. \u2014 Anthony Bartkiewicz, SPIN , 13 May 2022", "Loop parking lots placed them on cars, and the combination of words and shtick turned the trick. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 3 Mar. 2022", "Gilbert Gottfried\u2019s manic, loudmouthed stand-up routines mixed old-fashioned borscht-belt shtick with cringeworthy vulgarity. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Apr. 2022", "This is where Broderick\u2019s shtick pays off best, as Roy resorts to increasingly desperate measures, including shimmying along the window ledge above Fifth Avenue in an attempt to access the bathroom. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Mar. 2022", "My tendency in such situations is to turn my role into shtick \u2014I\u2019m the wisecracking Daria, the mordant brunette, the one whose qualities will age well. \u2014 Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic , 9 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1959, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Yiddish shtik pranks, literally, piece, from Middle High German st\u00fccke , from Old High German stucki ; akin to Old English stycce piece, Old High German stoc stick \u2014 more at stock entry 1":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8shtik" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "act", "bit", "number", "routine", "turn" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212149", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] } }