- glitsh
- (m.) slippery area, skating-groung
Yiddish-English dictionary (in roman letters). 2013.
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glitch — (glitsh) [Yiddish, from German glitschen: to slip] Originally, to skid on a slippery surface. More recently, an annoying problem, snag, or malfunction in a plan or in a machine, especially a computer … Dictionary of foreign words and phrases
glitch — noun Etymology: perhaps from Yiddish glitsh slippery place, from glitshn (zikh) to slide, glide; akin to Old High German glītan to glide more at glide Date: 1962 1. a. a usually minor malfunction < a glitch in a spacecraft s fuel cell >; also bug … New Collegiate Dictionary
Glitch — For other uses, see Glitch (disambiguation). A glitch is a short lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the… … Wikipedia
List of English words of Yiddish origin — For Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews (that are not necessarily English), see Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews. This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of… … Wikipedia
glitch — /glich/, Slang. n. 1. a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan. 2. Computers. any error, malfunction, or problem. Cf. bug1 (def. 5). 3. a brief or sudden interruption or surge in voltage in an electric circuit. v.t. 4. to cause a glitch in:… … Universalium
Yiddish words used by English-speaking Jews — Yiddish words may be used in a primarily English language context. An English sentence that uses these words sometimes is said to be in Yinglish, however the primary meaning of Yinglish is an anglicism used in Yiddish. This secondary sense of the … Wikipedia
glitch — 1962, Amer.Eng., possibly from Yiddish glitsh a slip, from glitshn to slip, from Ger. glitschen, and related gleiten to glide (see GLIDE (Cf. glide)). Perhaps directly from German; it began as technical jargon in the argot of electronic hardware… … Etymology dictionary
glitch — [[t]glɪtʃ[/t]] n. 1) cvb Informal. a defect, error, or malfunction, as in a machine or plan 2) cvb elm a brief or sudden interruption or surge in electric power • Etymology: 1960–65; perh. < Yiddish glitsh a slip; cf. Yiddish glitshn, G… … From formal English to slang
glitchy — glitch (glĭch) n. 1) A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: »a computer glitch; a navigational glitch; a glitch in the negotiations. 2) A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge of electric power … Word Histories
